hifi

if I opened up hifi components (amps, preamps, DACs, etc.), photographed the internals, and explained their circuits, would any of you nerds be interested?

I really shouldn’t but I have found an exceedingly rare DAC from 1995 that I want to restore and hotrod.

please talk me out of it so that I don’t need to learn how to solder.

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haha yeah, just really high stakes when working on audio gear. would be cool to learn though.

soldering is cool tho. good post-apocalyptic skill

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if you collect such things then can be a solid addition and fun to get it to work

it’s pretty cool, uses UltraAnalog chips that are no longer manufactured. fully discrete, no op-amps even in the I/V stage.

warm and analog sounding but missing some modern precision, so not the tightest bass and less than perfect detail retrieval.

not sure if I want to take the gamble to restore it or whether I’m crazy.

Does radio shack still exist? Or frys? They usually got some easy kits for soldering practice.

I have done very little soldering so would need to get much better before actually working on anything valuable

soldering is fairly easy and a good skill to have for the afterlife, go for it.

You can do eeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Soldering can get addictive though 😄