Difficulty of Hagerman Bugle phono build?

[deepak]

Anyone here gander a guess (or someone that's built one) how difficult it is to build (battery version)? I wrote off getting one since I didn't want to wait for the Digikey order and the order from Hagerman but someone is selling complete kits on ebay so I'm thinking I might as well do it. And it might just outperform the NAD PP-2 for less.

[n_maher]

As far as stuffing the pcb is concerned it doesn't get much easier. If you've got the basic tools (DMM, iron, etc) it's only a few hours work. But as with just about anything DIY the devil is usually in the casework.

[deepak]

Thanks Nate. Have the DMM, just need to replace my iron.

As for casework, that's always the pain. I think I might do it up in wood.

[n_maher]

Mine's been built for something like 4 months now and I still haven't even fired it up. I've got way to many have finished projects these days!