you gotta be kidding !

Bigun · 1st December 2012, 10:14 PM

take a cheap chinese pcb, glue it on a stick of wood, paint it with voodoo and sell it as the best thing since sliced bread

The Altmann BYOB amplifier

picowallspeaker · 1st December 2012, 10:19 PM

It's green

Telstar · 1st December 2012, 10:44 PM

"One Altmann BYOB amplifier comes EUR 950,- including 5 years guartantee"

for that price at least he could hire an editor to do spellcheck.

SY · 1st December 2012, 10:47 PM

After reading stuff like this:

Mother of Tone - The CD Format

I confess that I can't determine if this guy is a smart con artist or just ignorant and unaware.

But the PCB on a hunk of cheap wood for $1300 inclines me to the former.

tinitus · 1st December 2012, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SY

But the PCB on a hunk of cheap wood for $1300 ......

its not new any more
but I seem to remember much lower prices
anyway, I think his DAC once tested quite well

many weird ideas, sure
but I bet you can find interesting ones among them

Bigun · 1st December 2012, 11:35 PM

some poor sod probably bought one of these too

Ken Newton · 2nd December 2012, 01:49 AM

One the early things many of us learned about this hobby is that you don't judge equipment by the way it looks, just as you don't judge a book by its cover.

sofaspud · 2nd December 2012, 02:40 AM

This "book" has no cover. Looks like a chipamp, actually.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BYOB amplifier manual

As wood is a living material, it will naturally age, of course not in a degenerative but in a positive sense. As with any musical instrument, it must be played to develop its sound. The same is true for your BYOB amplifier. The more you play it, the better it gets.

and

Quote:

The performance standard of your BYOB amplifier is A Performance Standard.

tomchr · 2nd December 2012, 02:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SY

After reading stuff like this:

Mother of Tone - The CD Format

I confess that I can't determine if this guy is a smart con artist or just ignorant and unaware.

But the PCB on a hunk of cheap wood for $1300 inclines me to the former.

Maybe an con artist ignorant of the underlying engineering...?

Gotta love the gold plated battery terminals, though.

~Tom

overtheairbroadcast · 2nd December 2012, 02:55 AM

Battery operated? Has warm wood? Low parts count? Expensive for the components? Simple enough that a diy'er might be able to make one themselves?

Meh. I'd rather spend my hard earned lucre on a Grado RA-1 headphone amp instead.

1st December 2012, 10:14 PM	#1
Bigun diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Blog Entries: 2	you gotta be kidding ! take a cheap chinese pcb, glue it on a stick of wood, paint it with voodoo and sell it as the best thing since sliced bread The Altmann BYOB amplifier __________________ "The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed." Robert M Pirsig.

1st December 2012, 10:44 PM	#3
Telstar diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Italy	"One Altmann BYOB amplifier comes EUR 950,- including 5 years guartantee" for that price at least he could hire an editor to do spellcheck. __________________ "The total harmonic distortion is not a measure of the degree of distastefulness to the listener and it is recommended that its use should be discontinued." D. Masa, 1938

1st December 2012, 10:47 PM	#4
SY diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Chicagoland Blog Entries: 1	After reading stuff like this: Mother of Tone - The CD Format I confess that I can't determine if this guy is a smart con artist or just ignorant and unaware. But the PCB on a hunk of cheap wood for $1300 inclines me to the former. __________________ If there's a sucker born every minute, where do the rest of them come from?

1st December 2012, 11:35 PM	#6
Bigun diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Blog Entries: 2	some poor sod probably bought one of these too __________________ "The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed." Robert M Pirsig.

2nd December 2012, 01:49 AM	#7
Ken Newton diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Eastern Pennsylvania	One the early things many of us learned about this hobby is that you don't judge equipment by the way it looks, just as you don't judge a book by its cover. __________________ Ken


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1st December 2012, 10:19 PM	#2
picowallspeaker diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2007	It's green

2nd December 2012, 02:55 AM	#10
overtheairbroadcast diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Canada	Battery operated? Has warm wood? Low parts count? Expensive for the components? Simple enough that a diy'er might be able to make one themselves? Meh. I'd rather spend my hard earned lucre on a Grado RA-1 headphone amp instead.

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