I plan on a pile of questions so it seem only polite to offer and introduction and thankyou in advance.
I am a locomotive engineer. About now I wish that was electrical engineer. I'll give myself credit as being fairly good with mechanical things, but electrical, I just never too the initiative to learn. As I get older it becomes clearer to me how an early education is hard to replace if only because it instills the basics and teaches you to use a framework to answer questions and organize the way you think. I actually studied Finance and English. Sorry to say I wasted that money. I worked for Merrill Lynch for 6 years out of college and decided it wasn't for me. My other main interests are hunting occasionally, I'm an inactive private pilot because I just can't stomach the expense, and motorcycles. I have 2 Moto Guzzis, 2 BMW and 2 Suzuki.
Anyway, I have always enjoyed music and usually had the best of, what in hindsight, was a bunch of pretty bad systems back through the 90's. I guess at least they had plugs and wires as opposed to a phone and Bluetooth speaker as we see so often now.
I recently bought a small Tube Headphone/Preamp and 2 Adcom amplifiers. I enjoyed that enough so that within a couple of months am trying, aggressively, to learn and to build some decent projects on a budget. I built some kit speakers, put together a small speaker kit, built an Elekit TU-8500 and have been collecting some parts and kits that interest me. I bought a B1 Korg Nutube kit, some Honey Badger boards and F6 boards. I also bought the makings for a small chip amp from a company called Neurochrome. Neurochrome is not cheap but I appreciate the fact that the owner is very helpful and responsive. He, by all appearances, seems to be looking to perfect his products and they seem to be quality. I certainly don't mind paying extra to someone that will speak to me and will not sell me fakes or junk. Of course I really appreciate the DIY store. Seems ultra reasonable and is connected to this site.
I will be attacking the Nutube and F6 first. I think the F6 first because the parts count is low and, sadly, all parts seem to be in short supply. Neurochrome makes it very easy by providing a link to a BOM at Mouser and a lot of parts for that chip amp are backordered.
That's my best stab at a self portrait without going on and on. Nothing worse than listening to someone talk about themselves.
I am a locomotive engineer. About now I wish that was electrical engineer. I'll give myself credit as being fairly good with mechanical things, but electrical, I just never too the initiative to learn. As I get older it becomes clearer to me how an early education is hard to replace if only because it instills the basics and teaches you to use a framework to answer questions and organize the way you think. I actually studied Finance and English. Sorry to say I wasted that money. I worked for Merrill Lynch for 6 years out of college and decided it wasn't for me. My other main interests are hunting occasionally, I'm an inactive private pilot because I just can't stomach the expense, and motorcycles. I have 2 Moto Guzzis, 2 BMW and 2 Suzuki.
Anyway, I have always enjoyed music and usually had the best of, what in hindsight, was a bunch of pretty bad systems back through the 90's. I guess at least they had plugs and wires as opposed to a phone and Bluetooth speaker as we see so often now.
I recently bought a small Tube Headphone/Preamp and 2 Adcom amplifiers. I enjoyed that enough so that within a couple of months am trying, aggressively, to learn and to build some decent projects on a budget. I built some kit speakers, put together a small speaker kit, built an Elekit TU-8500 and have been collecting some parts and kits that interest me. I bought a B1 Korg Nutube kit, some Honey Badger boards and F6 boards. I also bought the makings for a small chip amp from a company called Neurochrome. Neurochrome is not cheap but I appreciate the fact that the owner is very helpful and responsive. He, by all appearances, seems to be looking to perfect his products and they seem to be quality. I certainly don't mind paying extra to someone that will speak to me and will not sell me fakes or junk. Of course I really appreciate the DIY store. Seems ultra reasonable and is connected to this site.
I will be attacking the Nutube and F6 first. I think the F6 first because the parts count is low and, sadly, all parts seem to be in short supply. Neurochrome makes it very easy by providing a link to a BOM at Mouser and a lot of parts for that chip amp are backordered.
That's my best stab at a self portrait without going on and on. Nothing worse than listening to someone talk about themselves.
Welcome to diyAudio 🙂
You will find member tomchr (of neurochrome) is a regular poster on these forums.
You will find member tomchr (of neurochrome) is a regular poster on these forums.
Here's the F6 build guide, if you haven't seen it yet.
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/f6-illustrated-build-guide.277850/
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/f6-illustrated-build-guide.277850/