"Johan Helsingius" wrote in message
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I wonder, is there anyone these days who builds their
own equipment?. Back in the day, I knew dozens of
people who built turntable plinths, speaker cabinets,
valve amps, preamps, and transistor preamps in tobacco
tins.

I guess it depends on your definition of "build". My last
two projects have been putting together active amplification
and crossover for my venerable old Linn Isobariks from hypex
class D amp modules and a programmable digital signal processor,
and "modernizing" an old 1960's Philips tube radio with a
Raspberry Pi, DAC and amps hidden inside to allow streaming
of music from the net. The tricky part has been the careful
tuning of light dimming algorithms to make LEDs simulate
tubes warming up...

Like this?
http://www.kolumbus.fi/Iain.Churches...em/C50_010.jpg


Iain