I’ve always loved how the internals of an amp or dac looked. The simplicity of a sequential board layout or a rats nest of wires seemingly serving no use, yet sound prevails. It would be nice to see if anyone else shared this interest and if not… 
An example from myself is the Denafrips Aries II!
I quite enjoy the aesthetics of a component’s internals!!
I’m biased since I own one, but I think the vertical R2R boards in the Sonnet Morpheus are cool. Taken together. with the toroidal transformer and the attention to detail in the cable management, it makes for a pleasing “topless” pic.
Nice thread
Every open denafrips dac from ares to terminator look insanely sexy, simply arranged ladder caps with huge coils.
Denafrips Pontus II
This is a very clever arrangement
My current AVR that I use in 2ch for my 3030i’s only just came accross this awesome article on it. SONY STR-V555ESの仕様 ソニー
Which incidentally has this image off it so I dont have to take mine apart to grab a picture haha.
As you can tell by the heatsinks it gets VERY hot haha.
Quite packed but enjoy 
Who would have thought Asus made DACs, and its all nichicon gold caps too
muses01 opamps! I wonder how they sound, I have some muses02 myself, not very detailed but very warm and inviting.
Asus made sound cards but this was one of three or four models they made stand alone. Based off a TI chip.
Those op amps arent stock. The previous owner switched them out then sold it for the price of the Muse01s. I have the amp and volume bypassed and am using it with the BHC. It tends to be a slightly warm slightly less detailed dac but i got my money’s worth out of it and its easy to move and looks nice.
Back in the day I had one of the first generation Asus Xonar STX PCI soundcards. They were some of the best internal cards you could get and one of the few ways to get digital out on anything but very high end motherboards. The STX even had a built in headphone amp that could power most headphones. It needed a dedicated molex power connection and was an absolute pig to install the drivers for. Doing so was worth it though for the wasapi driver.
So many sound cards of the time had bad drivers that didnt want to install, or just plain broke once every few weeks.
I sold one card for $15 with the listing saying something that the drivers may or may not work, tired of fiddling with it, buy at your own risk.
This is where I started as well when I decided to “get back into better audio”. Even with the Burson 5i opamps it till couldn’t hold a candle to a Topping D10 and a O2 amp. when I finally moved my oudio out of the pc.
My unit:
Is that the dac that goes with the pro ican?
Very neat
That is pretty packed.
I would have expected some RF-shielding cans around the tubes though (and whatever circuit drives the motor-poti).
It’s what it’s
Yup 
Whatcha guys think about Audio Technicas BHA100 Hybrid Balanced Amp design?
I like the way its setup but is this arrangament kind of “optimal”? looks very well arranged to me and with external PSU
Some Cowon DAP internals
https://forum.sonusapparatus.com/t/cowon-plenue-dap-thread-s-l-p2mk2-d2-d3/969/3?u=souldriver
