Well, in all fairness drip provides full email support for the project you buy from him, so it's more like a kit: PCB and support. And I don't think his PCBs will break under transformer weight, has anyone had one in hand? You could do some serious bludgeoning with that slab of epoxy he calls a PCB.
The way I see it, there are a lot of people here that can do their own p2p build and that's commendable. We, on the other hand, can't and PCBs are a good alternative, especially if they're bundled with support. It's a different market. That said, the 436 he sells has a reworked power supply, attack/release controls, cathode/plate adjustment pots and uses transformers from the 660 and 175 projects. So, yeah, it's going to be different from a regular 436 imo.
The way I see it, there are a lot of people here that can do their own p2p build and that's commendable. We, on the other hand, can't and PCBs are a good alternative, especially if they're bundled with support. It's a different market. That said, the 436 he sells has a reworked power supply, attack/release controls, cathode/plate adjustment pots and uses transformers from the 660 and 175 projects. So, yeah, it's going to be different from a regular 436 imo.