Having spent years on the DIYAudio forums I got sucked into several of the various ‘cults’ there. First it was the Fullrange driver schtick and tried for several years to understand what the appeal
was. When I finally realized that all the dudes who swore by full-range were old guys who had probably lost the top octaves of hearing I realized that I needed to build at least two-way speakers. Then it was chip amps and the cult around the clones of the 47 Labs chip amp. For under $20 one could get a couple of LM1875 or the more powerful versions and build a point to point wired amplifier. Weird topologies like making the inverting version even ensued. Thoerston Loesch was a member here for awhile was a mentor.
But there were always exotic amps like the AKSA from Aspen Labs that were seen as the holy grail. That they sounded so much better than everything else. Never got that far though I did accumulate the PCBs and almost all the parts for the P3A amp from Rod Elliot. And for one of the DIY Nelson Pass designs. Somehow got sidetracked with life work and divorce.
I’d be interested in seeing how some of these icons of diy measure and if anyone has them in their systems please send them in to Amir!
was. When I finally realized that all the dudes who swore by full-range were old guys who had probably lost the top octaves of hearing I realized that I needed to build at least two-way speakers. Then it was chip amps and the cult around the clones of the 47 Labs chip amp. For under $20 one could get a couple of LM1875 or the more powerful versions and build a point to point wired amplifier. Weird topologies like making the inverting version even ensued. Thoerston Loesch was a member here for awhile was a mentor.
But there were always exotic amps like the AKSA from Aspen Labs that were seen as the holy grail. That they sounded so much better than everything else. Never got that far though I did accumulate the PCBs and almost all the parts for the P3A amp from Rod Elliot. And for one of the DIY Nelson Pass designs. Somehow got sidetracked with life work and divorce.
I’d be interested in seeing how some of these icons of diy measure and if anyone has them in their systems please send them in to Amir!