Maybe not the listening equipment, finally I received my PCBs for hardware SID chip replacement. Over 10 years ago, on my first year of electronic technical school I started dreaming about built own synthesizer based on C64 SID chips and I almost finished it this summer.


In the background of second picture you can see soldering station. This one is also built from scratch by myself. It uses Arduino as driver and temperature controller and only one encoder for all user interface. Tips of my choice was very good Hakko T12.
I know it is possible to buy ready drivers for T12 but guys who make it mistakenly founded / researched the thermocouple used in tips for measuring themperature is type K. But it really is something between type C and D so on cheap driver when you will set 350 Celsius degrees you will have over 550 on the tip. This motivated me to build my own station