[Mike Rivers]

Arny Krueger wrote:

I know that some people are afraid of low cost audio products, but those of
us who have to live in that world know that it is not nearly as bad as some
make it out to be.

$500 a channel is a very salty number to beat.

You need a good sense of who wrote the article. Several
years back, Paul wrote about the $50 mic preamp, referring
to a Mackie mixer, and according to him (and just about
everybody else) it was darn good. He also wrote a DIY
article in three parts for a mic preamp that cost about
$2,000 in parts. He knows both ends of the scale, and I
thought he treated the "$5 mic preamp" pretty fairly.

Whether you're a do-it-yourselfer or a manufacturer, you can
always take shortcuts to make something cheaper. One of the
best ways is to not pay professional rates for hand labor,
either free building it yourself or investing heavily in
industrial design and having it built in China for a few
bucks an hour.

You can get a bargain in something second hand that hasn't
hit the vintage market yet, or you can roll your own and
have something that nobody else has. .




--
"Today's production equipment is IT based and cannot be
operated without a passing knowledge of computing, although
it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge
of audio." - John Watkinson