Unfortunatly I have to agree with you! I have a Fostex VF80 as a notebook. I still have my old Teac 3340 - 6 inches from my feet as I type, but sadly no longer the workhorse it used to be. However, given such a machine up to spec, and the rediculously high levels at which I could drive it, I would be a happy man.

Does anyone build analogue processing gear? I have an ADA Flanger I built a few years ago with improved clock buffering, and modified for the SAD 1024 BBD chip - best sounding flanger I ever heard, it provides almost through zero flanging!