Has anyone here tried building or testing small DIY amplifiers for home audio setups, and how do they actually hold up against budget commercial amps in terms of sound quality? I was going through this tutorial (
https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2021/06/simplest-lm386-audio-amplifier-in-proteus.html) where they used the LM386 to make a simple audio amplifier, and it looked surprisingly straightforward.
It made me wonder if projects like this similar to some Arduino forum discussions on Bluetooth speaker builds or Raspberry Pi threads about pairing Pi boards with mini amps. Can actually perform decently in real-world listening, or if they’re mostly just good learning exercises.
