Kookaburra in transit!

It turns out that the volumeless amplifier idea didn't last very long. Once the amplifier got hooked up to my MacBook Pro's internal audio source, the granularity of the volume control was not nearly enough for day to day use. Also, thinking of headroom, it's always best to have a digitally controlled output attenuated in the analog domain, rather than digitally.

After some initial research into what it would take to design/build my own preamplifier section to handle volume control and buffering, I decided that a kit was the best way to go. Enter The Kookaburra.

This preamplifier is designed exactly as I would have done it myself, but even better (because honestly, I'm just not that great at designing circuits). By going with a kit, I get a bag of parts that I can attack with my soldering iron, and get a tried & tested product as the output (provided I don't screw up the soldering job too badly).

Currently I'm waiting to receive my Kookaburra kit in the mail, and I plan to build it shortly thereafter. I hope to post some further updates on the progress of the project in due time, along with some better pictures of the inside my amp.