Your favourite internals of an audio gear?

[kandamrgam]

I am no audio expert, nor understand the internals much, but my favourite, just visually, so far has been Laiv Harmony DAC:

Work of art!

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An interesting DAC I have seen is Bricasti M1 DAC:

While I am nobody to judge, I thought this was overengineering. To see 3 separate toroidal transformers on a DAC only box??! But it was kinda cool to see the boards literally separated, even though I dont know what these are for..

 

[Power Pop 23]

Not so much a favorite....

I was struck by the relatively sparse innards of JBL's 'MA' series of AVR's - It is my understanding it is due in part to using a switching power supply and Class-D amplification. The innards of the entry-level MA310 (see below) remind me of the of innards of a digital AM/FM tuner from the 1980's - minus the heat sinks.

 

[kandamrgam]

Not so much a favorite....

I was struck by the relatively sparse innards of JBL's 'MA' series of AVR's - It is my understanding it is due in part to using a switching power supply and Class-D amplification. The innards of the entry-level MA310 (see below) remind me of the of innards of a digital AM/FM tuner from the 1980's - minus the heat sinks.

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Wow that's so minimalistic for an AVR.

 

[Waxx]

I like it when it's nice and organised, like this guitar tube amp (brand not important here)

The same for this class A amp:

and you don't wnat something like this:

Luckely with modern IC based amps and so, this kind of mess becomes rare.