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I totally get the attraction, especially building your own. I built 2 preamps based around a simple op amp design. I still use them now.
I went down the digital & dsp route, room correction and that sort of thing.
I like to hear overdriven guitar amp valves on vinyl and a digital system can deliver that well enough.
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I went down the digital & dsp route, room correction and that sort of thing.
Yeah that’s the route my pal has gone. He’s running a fairly basic class D amp but speakers with self-measured Thiele and Small parameters, with room correction with dsp that he just measured using a basic microphone. If I’m completely frank, I think his self-corrected setup sounds better than my other mate’s hifi which runs well into 5 figures.
Fascinating stuff and I had no idea how easy it is to do now. I think back how hard it was to accurately measure Thiele and Small on a speaker when I was at school, sat there with a signal generator and scope borrowed from the Physics department and bits of blutac and still not managing it!
Jonny69
Lol, a £2.99 tone control off eBay and some switches would probably do a similar job, such is the quality of even the cheapest modern components*. So this cost around a factor of 30 more to build and probably draws around 20W compared to maybe 0.5W?!
But it does sound so sweet. Can recommend an old Mullard if you have a big setup, especially paper cones on a valve or mosfet amp.