I've been a member for a long while, but have just been consuming information here and there over there years about the different diy amp builds, and such. But when my grandfather passed, I inherited his two Heathkit AA-10 mono tube amps that I am planning to restore to functional (hopefully just a recap). Plus one of my Carver M1.0t amps has given up the ghost and won't turn on now, so plan to dig into repair on it as well as some functional upgrades on both of my M1.0t amps (an op-amp and power rail capacity boost that many refer to as the "mk2 opt002 mod" that swaps to a slightly better sounding op-amp used in the Silver-7t, as well as boosts overall output from 200W/ch to 350. I've also got a set of Acoustat 2+2 electrostatic speakers that have Medallion "blue" upgrades, but both have developed an occasional popping when the barometric pressure and/or humidity changes, so I need to go through them (likely leaky caps) and will source parts to do the Medallion "red" upgrade to them at the same time.
I'm currently running a custom RaspberryPi streamer I built with an S.M.L.S UL-1 dac for output. It's a simple web front end I wrote running on nginx and playing FLAC audio from my Nextcloud Webdav audiostore, but am looking to build something a bit more robust, as the Spotify integration stopped working a while back due to countermeasures from Spotify on the library I was using to access the spotify API.
Regardless, hoping to finally dig into some of these audio projects I've had on my todo list for a while.
Gawd I love the internet where electronics/audio geeks like us can grow our collective knowledge together 🙂
-=dave
I'm currently running a custom RaspberryPi streamer I built with an S.M.L.S UL-1 dac for output. It's a simple web front end I wrote running on nginx and playing FLAC audio from my Nextcloud Webdav audiostore, but am looking to build something a bit more robust, as the Spotify integration stopped working a while back due to countermeasures from Spotify on the library I was using to access the spotify API.
Regardless, hoping to finally dig into some of these audio projects I've had on my todo list for a while.
Gawd I love the internet where electronics/audio geeks like us can grow our collective knowledge together 🙂
-=dave