lagoausente
Well-known member
First of all, just tell that I think the Drawing board is a good section to this thread, even is not theory, has much relation with the fact that today, many free guys can be learning and teaching the inside secrets of the gear, and that has to do with the money, buisness etc.
I just wanted to start a reflection about why we are here.
As a newbie I started a thread, about if is afordable to DIY or not. The conclusion is that many times if you save money, it doesn´t worth itself for the time you have to spent on the project. So, many of the guys that end DIY , are for passion, and to get knowlegde.
I think there is another issue. The truth, and the lie. At least me, I´m tired of being deceived when buying devices. Marketing, prestige of firms often make people buy things without knowing the truth inside. And often, to know what is inside is imposible, unless you buy it, and open it.
In the other hand, we have now a new market. DIY kits, more or less assembled, for afordable prices. Afordable prices often have to do , at my opinion, with ausence of costs of marketing advertisements, distribuitors, stores... etc etc.
But that´s not tha main issue I want to remark. The main issue I think is the information, and sincerity. Before buying a kit, we have access to schematics, and know what components we´ll get, and even can select what op-amps or transformers we prefer.
This for me, makes a quite big diference of type of markets. Comercial seems to prefer a blind buyer, since DIY market seems lo like people who likes knowledge.
For many guys that have not enough time to became a designer of it´s own preamps. Here starts the needing of an exchange. The same often is more practical to buy a device that to build it, also many times is more practical to buy a pcb with components that to build it from 0.
What I miss, and is the motivation of this post, is more marketing of DIY kits. And when I tell more marketing don´t mean advertisement like big comercial companies. I mean a info marketing. Especially for newbies, that we don´t know yet how that transformer or that op-amp color or gives to the sound.
I mean, I go to one of this DIY pages and read; kit with "x" op-amps, and "y" input transformers.
Than other kit with other ones... I can of course, take the search, and be the next weeks nights reading lots of threads.. but, why? You can tell me the pros and cons of each kit you sell, what get with this op-amp, advantages and disvantages of one design compared with other, and that is technical type of advertisement that is based on electronic objective issues, and have nothing to do with the advertisement of big companies.
Then , the difference is quite big, since even we don´t have knowledge to know in depth how the preamps works, can have a quite cleaner idea of what we´ll get with each type of preamp. That would be many guys, forget the "blind" method of buying preamps based on a company name or prestige, or even high price.
I just wanted to start a reflection about why we are here.
As a newbie I started a thread, about if is afordable to DIY or not. The conclusion is that many times if you save money, it doesn´t worth itself for the time you have to spent on the project. So, many of the guys that end DIY , are for passion, and to get knowlegde.
I think there is another issue. The truth, and the lie. At least me, I´m tired of being deceived when buying devices. Marketing, prestige of firms often make people buy things without knowing the truth inside. And often, to know what is inside is imposible, unless you buy it, and open it.
In the other hand, we have now a new market. DIY kits, more or less assembled, for afordable prices. Afordable prices often have to do , at my opinion, with ausence of costs of marketing advertisements, distribuitors, stores... etc etc.
But that´s not tha main issue I want to remark. The main issue I think is the information, and sincerity. Before buying a kit, we have access to schematics, and know what components we´ll get, and even can select what op-amps or transformers we prefer.
This for me, makes a quite big diference of type of markets. Comercial seems to prefer a blind buyer, since DIY market seems lo like people who likes knowledge.
For many guys that have not enough time to became a designer of it´s own preamps. Here starts the needing of an exchange. The same often is more practical to buy a device that to build it, also many times is more practical to buy a pcb with components that to build it from 0.
What I miss, and is the motivation of this post, is more marketing of DIY kits. And when I tell more marketing don´t mean advertisement like big comercial companies. I mean a info marketing. Especially for newbies, that we don´t know yet how that transformer or that op-amp color or gives to the sound.
I mean, I go to one of this DIY pages and read; kit with "x" op-amps, and "y" input transformers.
Than other kit with other ones... I can of course, take the search, and be the next weeks nights reading lots of threads.. but, why? You can tell me the pros and cons of each kit you sell, what get with this op-amp, advantages and disvantages of one design compared with other, and that is technical type of advertisement that is based on electronic objective issues, and have nothing to do with the advertisement of big companies.
Then , the difference is quite big, since even we don´t have knowledge to know in depth how the preamps works, can have a quite cleaner idea of what we´ll get with each type of preamp. That would be many guys, forget the "blind" method of buying preamps based on a company name or prestige, or even high price.