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11/4/12 at 7:16am
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Originally Posted by SchmoSalt View Post

I'd be all for it but it looks like it is far beyond my electronics skill level. The furthest I've ventured into electronics is basically soldering wires together. I don't have the soldering experience and electrical know how to under take that kind of task. I couldn't even fully read the diagrams it showed.
I'll definitely keep this idea around for later when I have more money to spare and hopefully more electrical knowledge. From what I hear some of the best audio systems are DIY. I'd love to get into the whole hi-fi scene.
Thank you for your post, it was very eye opening. thumb.gif

DIY can sound amazing. A large part of that though is due to the fact that a store bought $1000 dollar speaker and built a speaker for $1000 dollars, you would have much higher quality, lower distortion drivers. You also can build boxes that optimize the drivers to their fullest potential rather than worrying about making the speaker more marketable to the mass public. The other big reason is the fact that most who build their own speakers also take measurements so that they can optimize their rooms....and rooms are the cause for most of the dips and peaks in response.

And honestly, that amplifier may not be what you are looking for as bobfig pointed out, I just try and make recommendations based on what I know and on the mistakes that I personally have made and want to try and help others avoid.

That said, soldering a PCB may look intimidating but I built my first one only a year ago and its not as hard as you may think. More than anything you just need to be patient and do a little at a time. Reading schematics is the hard part. I plan to make a F5 amp when I have the funds and will try to make an easy to understand instruction book with pictures so PM me in the future if you ever decided to tackle it.
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