torstai 26. lokakuuta 2017 14.03.04 UTC+3 Jim Lesurf kirjoitti:
In article , Adrian Caspersz
wrote:

I was leafing through an old 1980 copy of Hifi News and Record Review,
marvelling at the amount of constructional projects in that mag. Wow and
tears that that general interest doesn't exist anymore.

You may be right. However I keep wondering if the problem is the lack of
either items which would draw people into DIY and/or that people who'd like
it don't bother to tell editors so.

Are there any modern audio products available in kit form other than speakers?

I think that the fairly recent surge of interest in valve amps, killed off by cheap Chinese amplifiers with poor sound but fascinating pyrotechnics, was partly due to the fact that some people wanted to get their hands dirty, metaphorically speaking, even if only by adjusting the cathode bias:-)

Many tube/valve amps are wired point to point, so that the owner has little difficulty in replacing say the original cathode resistor with a low noise, 1% component, and enjoy the subsequent improvement which even the milkman commented upon:-)

It is probably the DIY bug in people that make them want to try exotic high-price speaker cables, and screened mains cables. This is probably the closest that many can get to building anything.

There used to be an excellent mag called "Elektor" published in German and English. I wonder if it is still going?

Iain