• 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.

  • 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!

  • I run a little PA system too so I've gradually learnt about it as the tech has developed. I have one of the simple room correction mics, it was £100. The REW software is free. It's been working pretty well for me.

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