most electronics are, just learn to break down what you want into blocks

and learn how to connect the blocks

my father builds amps n shit so i could probably learn from him

amps especially are easy since there's so much special purpose "they already did it perfect for you" components out there

discrete amps are hard but there's no reason for discrete amps unless you're trying to build amps for some insane loudspeaker system

and even then it's only hard in that you have to do math more complex than ohm's law

discrete looks cooler so it attracts sick audiophile cash B^)

more components = better sound

fact

just slap a tube in it with all pins connect to gnd

lol

audiophiles eat that shit up

guys remember to use silver cables

put a orange led pwm'd really dim under it

they'll think it's a real tube amp

wasnt there a chink tube amp that literally did that?

several

kek

most of them just use the tube as a preamp stage

just to add that tube noise to the signal

i saw a soundbar with a tube in it

i was like wtf

soundbars are aids anyway

ye

http://uncrate.com/p/2013/01/samsung-vacuum-tube-soundbar-xl.jpg

"hey what if we sold just the crappy tv speaker by itself, but for like $200"

http://www.avsforum.com/photopost/data/2232061/5/54/5481bcc5_DSC09795.png

lmao

thats soundbars

why

because rich people are stupid and will buy stupid shit

i still find it funny that grado sells a cmoy for like 10 times the price

ye

most headphone amps over like $50 are just audiophool markup

all dacs aside from special purpose data aquisition or audio production equipment over $30 are audiophool markup

idk you get really nice cases

hahaha

a "measurably 100% mathematicall proveably perfectly recreates every sound a human can hear" dac is like $25 BOM to make a one-off, can be made for under $10/pop if you're buying in a "i am selling these to the public" scale

and even that's overkill because go ahead, try and find a song, audiobook, tv show, anything like that, with a dynamic range over 70dB, and also consider that 120dB dynamic range means that in a signal using the full dynamic range, if you can hear the quietest part of it, the loudest part of it will literally destroy your ears

I ended up buying the kz zs5, let's see what they're worth

yea ive ordered a pair