[TeraHz]

Inspired by linuxworks' spdif master. I created my own optical-only version:

Top View:

Top View Without LCD:

Bottom View:

Uncased, next to my y2:

In the hammond case:

Next to my y2, cased and on a nice stand:

Thanks again linuxworks!

 

[DoYouRight]

HOW DO I MAKE ONE OF THOSE?

 

[ramenmeal]

i'm going to make some stands for my floorstanding speakers (huh?) for reflection purposes. So i thought what is trendy, cinder blocks came to mind, but then i thought of using a tree stump. genius! I think the look of having some skinny peg legged stand under a large speaker would look silly. Any way, do you guys think it matters what type of wood? I've already found a tutorial on how to make them, but it didnt specify if the wood mattered.

 

[nattonrice]

That last pic looks fantastic! good work!

 

[linuxworks]

cheers, terahz

enjoy the spdif switch.

 

[commandercam]

I've been considering a DIY amp project for about a year now and decided enough-is-enough, I should just order the parts and get something started. It's been a few years since I've done any electronics so the CMoy seemed like a good choice for my first amp project. All I can say is I'm so glad I did it! Tangent's tutorial is great and I had a blast putting it together. I'm looking forward to trying a few different opamps and I have an AD8620 on its way from BrownDog. What should I build next? It doesn't have to be a portable so I'm considering a PPA or maybe a Starving Student Millet Hybrid. Thoughts? Anyway this thread is about photos so here you go.

Cam

 

[funch]

Great job! Enjoy.

I especially like the hand-painted (I'm assuming) labels. Very cool!

 

[commandercam]

The faceplate is 1/8" clear acrylic. The labels are hand painted on the backside of the faceplate and then covered with several layers of black gloss spray paint.

Cam

 

[DoYouRight]

those handpainted labels are teh sex

 

[bhack101]

Longtime lurker finally getting my feet wet in the DIY scene. The last of my parts and tools came in for my Mini³ and I got it up and running tonight.

More photos of the in-between steps at my flickr page: The Mini³ Portable Stereo Headphone Amplifier - a set on Flickr

Thanks to great instructions from the AMB site as well as a ton of posts here on Head-Fi I was able to build and troubleshoot this and it went extremely well. I'm looking forward to my next project (whatever that may be)!

 

[jazzist]

Today I thought it was time to resurrect my 7-8 month stagnent B22 build and check it plays music OK with no funny noises or problems before picking up the project again and ordering the other (mirror) backplane (design already done) for the other 3 channels..
Only tested with a cheapo sennheiser headset and westone um2 (on vol setting 1!) but seems to play music fantastic with no problems..already got the other b22 boards assembled from long ago.
The e12 is not working well but I know how to fix, going to try a bit of this.. to get the rekay turning on reliably.. HeadWize: View Post [DIY Workshop » ε12: A muting delay / DC offset protection circuit for headphone amps]

Hope to get it done before xmas and take some nice photos for AMBs gallery on his site.
cheers.

Some older photos from when I was working on it hard:

match those babies

shout to AMB

first b22 in place

some connectors

 

[linuxworks]

I'm not a fan of black pcb's (hard to see and debug) but I do like the contrast you get from the green daughter cards and the darker base-board. nice effect

 

[Beefy]

Oh, I remember from ages ago that you were designing your own backplane. Nice to see it come to fruition!

 

[Oya?]

I loved my first build so much (a META42, you can see it in the third pic) that I bought another board and put this together. My Millet Hybrid died recently so this'll keep me very happy until the new MAX boards come out.

A really modest amp in a really modest enclosure but it sounds so

. Had some issues but all the awesome DIYers here helped me through them all!

 

[FallenAngel]

Nice clean build Oya?, congrats.