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diyAudio forum - a great place.

Elliott Sound Products - superb mine of audio information and projects, the best on the internet.

Basic Car Audio Electronics - loads of info and calculators/tools. Aimed at car audio, but equally applicable to home audio.

Doug Self Amplifier Institute - gurus site with lots of in-depth design info.

Shadow Works - fantastic quality infrawoofers designed and built in the UK.

8 ball audio - sat/sub speaker system to suit both the audiophile and design concious. Another great product from the UK.

Apex Jr - surplus electronics store in USA but deals worldwide.

Rapid Electronics - electronics catalogue.

Combined Precision Components - electronics catalogue, not as good as they used to be but still worth a try.

Farnell - electronics catalogue - part of same group as CPC, seem to be taking over the component business from CPC.

Mad About Sound - friendly UK based supplier of kits and parts for audio projects.

Warton Metals - great UK based manufacturer of solder, I recommend the Autosol RA 2% flux 0.7mm product for hand assembly.

Sprint-Layout - brilliant easy to use PCB design package. You will be up designing boards in minutes!

PCB Value - online service of Circuit Technology Ltd, UK based company that can deal with small PCB orders at a competitive price.

3 Dot Audio - a nice place to buy your PC audio hardware.

 

Other Links

Firefox browser - more secure, better featured and nicer layout than Internet Explorer. Free!

Thunderbird email client - never suffer an Outlook virus again. Free!

avast! antivirus - why pay for worse virus protection? Free version available.

ZoneAlarm firewall - essential for any internet user. Free version available.

Foxit PDF Reader - so much faster and less bloated than Adobe Reader. Free!

OpenOffice - does everything I've ever used MS Office for, is compatible with it and is a lot less bloated. Free!

WinRAR - file and directory compression software, like WinZIP but better and a free trial.

 

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