Want to build my own equipment.


Good Afternoon,

I have been crazy like most of you about music for a long time, love all aspects of it! Love audio equipment, and I like to build and engineer things as well. I want to get into building an amp or amps and a pre-amp that will out play my classe ca 101's running in a mono format and my 47.5 pre-amplifier. I would like to get better immaging a larger soundstage, and rediculous power. How does one do this? Does any one have any experienc in building these components, where should I start, how expensive is this to do? And am I crazy for even attempting such an ordeal. Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!!
keith_316

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I don’t know why you want to do that. If you enjoy building things, that is fine. But it is very difficult to build something that can better the high-end commercial products.

I was a DYIer in the 70s’ and 80s’ and I used to own an Audio Research SP6A preamp. In the good old days, the user manual of the preamp came with complete schematic and part list. So I built a few clones for my friends, each one was a little different and included what I considered “improvements”. But no matter what I did, none of the clones sounded as good as the original.

The reason was two words: measuring equipment. I had a cheap scope, a DIY signal generator, and a multi-meter. But in order to fine tune the amp, you need precision measuring equipment, which costs about the same as a complete high-end audio system.