There are some components need to solder by hand, will post the final board tomorrow.
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Looking great! What's that little circuit board hovering away from everything else for, by the way? It looks like where the op-amp and volume pot goes, but I could be wrong. How will that be attached to the main board in the end?
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Oh man, I wish it were something like the mini3, but usually DYI devices are more bang for the buck compared to commercial devices, in DYI you dont pay for a lot of stuff companies have to pay.
that being say, mini3 is around 75 to 80$(?) in parts alone, lets say 100$ for a finish one. and the E11 is gonna be 65$(?) I think comparing it with the mini3 is pushing it.
another amp with a lot of fans here is the PA2V2, which is around 60$, it is not a DYI but not a big company either, so maybe we can compare it to that one.
If I do end up getting the e11 (which I probably will), I'd be more then happy to compare it to my PA2V2 and post my findings in this thread.
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only plain IC, because L2, L8 is use PCOCC-A cable which import from Japan and quite expensive
Looking great! What's that little circuit board hovering away from everything else for, by the way? It looks like where the op-amp and volume pot goes, but I could be wrong. How will that be attached to the main board in the end?
I believe (though don't hold me to this) that it's the mounting board for the ALPS potentiometer. One of the reasons the amp is so thin is because the pot is actually mounted sideways to save space - some of the earlier proof of concept pictures showed this, but I can't be bothered to hunt them down. I can't quite tell how it's mounted, though.