My built of the famous headphone amplifier "The Wire" that was devellopped on Diyaudio. Based on the LME49990 and LME49600 op amps with focus on shortest signal path and compact build.

I housed the pcb in a CNC cut enclosure out of Golden Madrona Burl with aluminum front and back panels. The psu is covered by a rusty cover of 3mm soft steel to have a nice contrast to the precious wood above.
The three aluminum feet of the amplifier have small neodymium tablets in them to -sort of- snap the amplifier to the psu cover.

Comments

• Retro
• 22 November 2012 at 02:36PM
• I'm really big on audio gear being as much about art as sound. In your little creation here you have achaived that synergy. I also like the "cuteness" of the whole build.
  
  It doesn't always take much to take a drab looking piece of gear and dress it up a little. Of course you have gone further than that.
  
  What other creations do you have?

• admin
• 22 November 2012 at 04:35PM
• Retro, if you click on Stixxs' builder name in the grey panel at the top containing the project info, a gallery page of his projects will be assembled on the fly.

• Stixx
• 23 November 2012 at 12:42PM
• Retro, thanks for the kind words!
  As the admin (Jason?) pointed out, there is a few other amps some pages back. When I click on my name though it doesn't show all of my stuff... :)