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Tatonik wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

I'll point out that Kludge Audio has been a thing for decades but I just
figured it would be more interesting to make sell stuff myself than design
stuff for other people to make and sell. Turns out I'm a lot better at
making stuff than selling it, but I'm having a good time anyway.


I noticed all the offerings are 500 series modules. I don't have a 500
series rack but had been thinking of getting one. This might be a
stupid question, but are all 500 racks more or less created equal? Any
brands to avoid? Are there any decent small ones on the market with
just one or two slots?


Some of them are nice and some of them are total crap. Some have switching
supplies inside the case that leak magnetic fields. Some are very well
made with machined rails, and others are stamped out of chinese butter metal.

The bargain basement Alactron ones seem to be okay; they are flimsy and have
poor fit and finish but the external (linear) power supply Is acceptable.
For what they cost you can treat them as disposable.

The Purple Audio units are expensive but you get what you pay for and they
feel good, everything fits properly, and you can expect them to last a lot
longer.

Everybody and his brother is selling a rack and I can't keep them all
straight.

Justin Case spent a lot of time engineering careful filters to deal with
poor quality power supplies in cheap lunchboxes and he was kind enough to
let me steal his filter designs. I am surprised at the difference between
different cards in terms of power supply noise rejection, but I can't speak
for anyone else. My cards work well with crappy power supplies (but the
equalizer is sensitive to strong magnetic fields), but not everyone else's
is.
---scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."