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Beautiful!

It's very difficult to assemble a circuit without a substract (PCB or other), and those wires aren't going to stay straight by themselves.

The shining capacitors are a special touch (I guess he removed the plastic cover on them)

I'm not sure about the sound quality though.




Ever look inside an old tube amplifier? It's all point-to-point wiring, no PCBs.


If you're lucky it'll have some amazing cable lacework[1] holding the various bundles together. Sometimes I've thought that the insides are actually better looking than the case. It's a shame that it's dying out in favour of cable-ties and velcro, although the effort involved in both learning the skill and creating/reworking bundles means it's seldom the most economical approach.

I think it still lives on in some Ham radio groups teaching materials and standards though, as well as niche environments or reliability critical applications like (aero-)space

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing


Oh, my. Why did you have to bring that up? And provide a link?


Because that's beautiful, obscure and tangentially relevant?




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