There are benefits to p2p wiring AND circuit boards. The original Phase Linear amps were p2p. In fact, when the 300 series 2 amps were built, many of them had additional wires added to certain points because the pcb traces were too thin (high resistance) to carry the necessary current and that caused failures. Their low cost solution, add some 18awg wire. Circuit boards can be designed to carry the necessary current using thicker copper clad and doubling the traces on multilayer pcb's. Nowadays the best manufactures take everything into consideration to maintain low capacitance, inductance and resistance. That's how the best remain the best.
Point to Point vs Circuit Board
I just read this about point to point wiring:
First, there’s the music’s signal. You spend a lot of money on interconnects. So why have the signal go right from the RCA jacks or speaker terminals into circuit boards with copper traces so thin you can hardly see them? What’s high-end about that?
I've now heard about point to point wiring in the case of tube amp companies (Jadis, PrimaLuna) and my question is does point to point wiring exist for solid state amps? When I look at images inside amps online all solid state amps seem to use circuit boards. Is there such thing as a point to point transistor amp or must they necessarily have circuit boards? If so, which companies?
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