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Re:DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017) by vibrolax on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:26PM (#20258110)
Did you want to make hifi amps, or guitar amps? The electronics knowledge and construction techniques are nearly 100% transferrable, but the design lore diverges, and the online DIY communities can be very diverse. I've built a dozen or so guitar amps, preamps, etc.

I don't personally build hifi stuff, but I love John Brodskie's tubecad.com for the analysis of classic circuit topologies, and tons of original ideas. He offers nice looking PCB's for preamps and power supplies.

For me it was useful to determine what I wanted to build first, and find the related online sites and communities.

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Re:DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017) by pthreads on Sunday June 23, 2019 @09:05PM (#20259761)
HiFi. Short anecdote: I once went to a tube amp repair class. After about 5 minutes I realized this was only for guitar amps. I just pretended to be a guitar player and sat through. It was awesome though.

Anyway the TubeCAD site looks very interesting. Thanks.

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