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In the Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo.
Post Subject: Not such a dissimilar storyPosted by anthony on: 11/23/2017
Romy, thanks for taking the time to write a little about your history with Melquiades and diy.  In some ways our stories are quite similar.  My background is agriculture.  My family breed cattle and grow crops and I am a large part in that business.  I have a science degree and a consultancy that is almost entirely based in agriculture.  The land and livestock is "in my blood" and I have been brought up on a "do-it-yourself" or "fix-it-yourself" philosophy.  Never really with electronics though, although I did setup some solar powered telemetry to monitor stock-watering points several years ago.  There is nothing I want more right now than to take a month off work to get the project making noise so that I can take my time with the tuning process, but I need to keep my clients happy.

Fortunately, my wife is very understanding and can tolerate my dedication to the project.  It would be impossible otherwise.  Summer holidays are coming up here soon and if everything goes well I may get a week or two just doing my audio while the kids are farmed out to grand-parents and get to ride horses and motorbikes, chase cows and are spoilt with lunch pudding and the like.

Although I do tremendously enjoy the diy aspect of this project, it is not something that I envision doing continuously as part of my hobby.  I see it more as a "skills enhancer" (I have now fixed several household things that previously would have been discarded to the rubbish tip) and will benefit other parts of my life.  I think that it is very important for my children to see me doing something not only in my work time but also in my spare time rather than lounging around watching the tv.  They learn more by what they see than what I tell them to do.    

 Romy the Cat wrote:

So, in my view the DIY experience means very little. The clarity of what you do is much more important as to make all experiments with Sound and convince yourself that you do  is right this and that you listening right things is the most costly thing of all. 


I am not yet to the stage of having sound, but am reasonably close.  Perhaps being this close and having all the parts at hand and just needing to put them together is the real driver for my motivation at the moment.  I don't know.  Our true motivations are sometimes difficult to reveal.


 Romy the Cat wrote:

If I build the Super Melquíades again from scratch I would probably take a week or two off and would do it. The key would be the planning, to prepare all parts, to order of components and to organize everything. BTW, many things that you Anthony do might be outscored but I am not sure that it is what you want. In the end it is a labor of love, you undertake this project once a life. I am very much assure you that in many year you will be looking at your amps and will be wondering if it is true that you did them yourself. 

Rgs, 
Romy The Cat


Yep, you have nailed it with that paragraph Romy.  I don't intend to move onto the next audio project...I intend to get this one working just how I would like.

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