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Fayne
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Mar 26, 2019
I was thinking something similar a few days ago. I've been kind of surprised that MassDrop with it's Audiophile and DIY sections has never really carried much DIY for the audio side of things. I'd love to be able to order chassis in the same style as MD and customize the crap out of em. It'd be super easy for MD to come up with basic modular DIY cases based on what has been used for existing products. Chassis and panels (both blank and pre-drilled) could be sold separately, allowing an easy mix and match.
Myself having some 10+ Power AMP/Pre-AMP/HP AMP/DSP projects lined up (or in the works), I know I'd buy a fairly large number of them for personal fun. One of the hardest (and surprisingly expensive) parts of the DIY when one doesn't own a machine shop, is building or sourcing the damned chassis. If you get it fully custom built, you spend almost as much as the actual materials just in tooling changes. If you order from China, you spend as much or more than the chassis cost in shipping. If you go with one of the places like Landfall who build to order, you spend an excessive amount for that "American Quality" extrusion.
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Heefty
1387
Mar 27, 2019
FayneI was hoping they would start carrying items for DIY audio in the DIY tech section, but it never came to fruition. I guess audio doesn't have any tech behind it. They did drop some Burson repackaged op amps at some point so I made sure to get in that drop to help show that there's interest, but I don't know that there's much more to come on that front.
On the case front, I would love to be able to get my hands on a few of them!
Fayne
2583
Mar 27, 2019
HeeftyYeah. Totally not impressed with the DIY Audio selection. Considering the current market options for DIY audio gear (Ebay, Aliexpress, taobao, random-guy-from-forums), MD could do SO much more with the DIY section. There are a large number of open designs that could be used at the core of mix-and-match kits, or just straight reference designs from TI, Analog Devices, Maxim, AKM, or ESS. Just going by my own purchases in the past year, I'd say there is easy money to be had there.
I'd totally buy the crap out of DIY Audiophile kits for stuff like digital potentiometers, stepped attenuators, pre-amps, line amps, phono amps, DACs, ADCs, DSPs, power amps, VU drivers (digital or analogue), and power supplies.
I snagged the V5i, V5, and V6 Classic when they showed up, and am totally waiting on the V6 Vivid to appear at some point (I hope). My purchases were partly was to show support for the DIY thing, but mostly because that was a good freaking deal compared to ordering direct from Burson.
Heefty
1387
Mar 27, 2019
FayneFor sure. I would sell a kidney for a couple matched JFET sets so I can finally build my MMM. I don't have the buying power to get there on my own though. You can always use a great deal on good volume control. For all of the tube amps they sell you'd think they would at least be willing to offer replacement tubes for them to help people get into tube rolling.
Fayne
2583
Mar 27, 2019
HeeftyFunny you should mention the M³, I've got 3 of them in the works. Two in single-ended config (L/R/G), and one in full balanced (dual mono L/R, no ground). The single ended units are finished, tested, and awaiting final chassis modifications. Even having used unmatched JFET and MOSFET, they are a very sweet sweet sound when loaded with OPA604 @ 24-32vdc. Scope out nicely on my trashy Rigol too. I've spent more on the bloody chassis for the amps than I have on the parts. Custom panels are freaking expensive, and international shipping sucks.
Ti at AMB does sell the matched sets for the stuff that requires it if you don't want to do the matching yourself, and he ships stupid quickly. Same day in most cases. But if IIRC, the JFETs don't need Idss matching, they just need to be within a specific range. You're pretty safe just buying the parts from Mouser (Digikey/RS/whatever), with the expectation that the JFET and MOSFET are from the same batches, and will have generally the same characteristics.
I've got eight of the α24 in the works for a DIYINHK ES9016 8 channel DAC. Also something needing a chassis. One of the MD types would be freaking awesome for it.
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