Hi,
as i could use a good replacement for the small compact stereo system i use at my PC, and would like to build something myself, i came across the chipamps (gainclones).
Now, after several hours (days) of reading and looking around, i still cannot decide, which design i should try.
I often came across the chipamp.com kits (too expensive because of shipping, but someone can produce single layer-PCBs for me), and therefore also the carlosfm-designs, and the My_Ref Rev C from Mauro Penasa.
I like the My_Ref so far, because it includes all the schematics and PCB-layouts for speaker protection and so on. But from what i read, carlosfm's power supplys seem to work really well.
The chipamp.com layout seems to be a bit simpler than its reference by carlos, and uses fewer parts (less caps on the psu for example).
Many other projects use the psu-layout from carlos, which would make it easy and cheap to try and test different modifications in the future, because the transformer and psu-caps are the most expensive parts, apart from the chip itself.
Can you give me any recommendations or directions? Has anyone compared different designs?
as i could use a good replacement for the small compact stereo system i use at my PC, and would like to build something myself, i came across the chipamps (gainclones).
Now, after several hours (days) of reading and looking around, i still cannot decide, which design i should try.
I often came across the chipamp.com kits (too expensive because of shipping, but someone can produce single layer-PCBs for me), and therefore also the carlosfm-designs, and the My_Ref Rev C from Mauro Penasa.
I like the My_Ref so far, because it includes all the schematics and PCB-layouts for speaker protection and so on. But from what i read, carlosfm's power supplys seem to work really well.
The chipamp.com layout seems to be a bit simpler than its reference by carlos, and uses fewer parts (less caps on the psu for example).
Many other projects use the psu-layout from carlos, which would make it easy and cheap to try and test different modifications in the future, because the transformer and psu-caps are the most expensive parts, apart from the chip itself.
Can you give me any recommendations or directions? Has anyone compared different designs?