Formal or Informal Krooglish? Linguistic Expertise Needed

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>>(ARNY)
<calcer...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> You can build a "Gainclone" for between $25 and $100 a channel
> inclusive of all parts and less if you are a good scrounger.

This web site has some of the most over speced and overpriced parts
for building a Gainclone that I've ever seen. The stereo model
including all parts but power transformer and case is $55 or $27.50
per channel.

The lm3886 chips are about $5.20 one-up from regular parts
distributors like Digi-Key<<


I think that's Krooglish for "Cal is right to a first approximation".

Let's see, the part is $5.20 then you need a heatsink, mounting
hardware, insulator and white goop, plus some sort of PCB to put it on,
which you can make yourself but most people will want to buy. Most
people loathe PCB making, that in fact is one reason DIYtronics died
out in the solid state era and why tube DIY has become so popular
again. Plus resistors, caps, a power transformer, a switch and some
enclosure. So depending on your junkbox and how far you are willing to
trade time for money, that $27.50x2 isn't completely whacked out.
However you can use scrounged parts so your cost could theoretically be
as low as the $5.20 for the part. In my case I used a junked
minicomputer power supply for its case, heat sink,wire and other
goodies and built mine "dead bug" style. Mine happens to work fine but
no guarantees there. Some sort of prototyping board product would work
better.