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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!!!!
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!!!!
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Sounds like you have the talent, skill and inspiration. Can't tell if you have the technical background / education. If you have that, then all you need is time, money and test equipment. Quality reference units would be a help too. If you have never actually built a piece of equipment before, I highly recommend you start with kits, as others have said. You may even find that they give you all the satisfaction you are looking for. Here's another source : Bottlehead |
You might have a look here http://www.passdiy.com/ and the pass labs forum here http://www.diyaudio.com/ to get some good ideas. |
I dont 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. |
Dont let these people get you down. You can build gear for a fraction of the price if you have even basic knowledge and some good books on the subject. You might not be able to build the best without the right test gear, but you can make Amps that will easily surpass Adcom, and you can build speakers that sound like speakers purchased for 2-3 times the cost. Talk to other DIY'ers, It looks like a daunting task, but all in all it is not all that complicated to make a good loudspeaker or amplifier. Remember, even the best audio engineers and loudspeaker designers started somewhere. Almost every audio company started out as a DIY project in somone's garage. Just set realistic goals, accomplish them, research more, set a higher goal, and continue so on and so forth. |
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