A little gear porn for you, UA's two eleven seventhy six.

Here's a few shot for your viewing pleasure.  I must say, I wasn't that impressed when I popped open that puppy, I've seen far better jobs done here!  Ah, the joys of DIY...

Is that a switched-mode powersupply in the middle - close as possible to all audio transformers? :shock:

thats the first thing I noticed too. Is that a cost saving thing?

They are good at front panel design.

are that gustav's or mnats boards? :green:

[quote author="tony dB"]are that gustav's or mnats boards? :green:[/quote]


:razz: :razz: :razz:

..nearly fell of my chair laughing.. :razz: :razz:

[quote author="gyraf"]Is that a switched-mode powersupply in the middle - close as possible to all audio transformers? :shock:[/quote]
Same looks as the PSU-PCB of lots of cheap DVD-players... this UA-box is produced in China, right ?

[quote author="clintrubber"]Same looks as the PSU-PCB of lots of cheap DVD-players... [/quote]
Exact! It looks like the PSU I saw a few days ago in a dead DVD player.

Nice DIY! :green: :roll:

[quote author="laitue5"][quote author="clintrubber"]Same looks as the PSU-PCB of lots of cheap DVD-players... [/quote]
Exact! It looks like the PSU I saw a few days ago in a dead DVD player.[/quote]
When the dirty deeds (experiments & tests) are done then DVD-players like that are not seldom thrown into the bin here at work, uncovered & all. Hadn't realized these wrecks had still such a valuable UA-supply on board :sad:

But serious, switched supplies & audio can of course work together, but I must admit I was surprised to see it here in that UA-box.

Cheap practices or a wake-up call for us overengineering snobbist SMD-hating progress-fearing classA-powerwasting DIY-ers ? :roll:

Regards,

Peter

Knock it off, Winston might have wired that.
:?:

[quote author="CJ"]...Winston might have wired that.[/quote]

Nope.

I didn't think so...

... btw I have some high resolution of the guts of the reissue 1176. I think some people asked me for pictures but I never sent them. Anyone interested?

If so, I can just add them in this thread.

[quote author="Winston O'Boogie"][quote author="CJ"]...Winston might have wired that.[/quote]

Nope.[/quote]
Nah.

Plug-n-play assembly line girl put that one together...

Looks like a kit, but a decent kit I suppose...

I wonder if they got the resistor values right this time? :wink:

Keef

[quote author="Greg"]... btw I have some high resolution of the guts of the reissue 1176. I think some people asked me for pictures but I never sent them. Anyone interested?

If so, I can just add them in this thread.[/quote]

Yes please :thumb:

[quote author="SSLtech"]

I wonder if they got the resistor values right this time? :wink:
[/quote]

I'm sayin' nowt :?

...'Ear all, see all, say nowt.

eat all, sup all, pay nowt.

An' if thee e'er does owt for nowt,

Thee does it fer thi'ssen.

:wink:

piss on you switcher hating bastiches! :green:

Switchers are fine. Get with the times folks!

[quote author="SSLtech"]

Thee does it fer thi'ssen.

:wink:[/quote]

Allus do it fer tha Sen :wink:

By ecky-thump ah'll tell thee summat else fer-nowt, "It's a reet rum-do!".

Dun't make a' a-perth a-diff-rence te me mind, ah'll slap um-daft if thi dun't tek' rods out-uv arses!

Anyroad, Ah-cud eet a'scabby-donkey...

Cheap practices

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Maybe they tried both and switched sounded better who knows? I never tried one myself, but I´ve heard that there are pretty good switehd PSUs out there... It´s in fact just much much hard to make a decent DIY switch PSU than using a LM317. OH, that´s for sure.