For instance, our other favorite DIP chip amp, the TDA7052, has been end-of-lifed. So for an SMT PCB design, the LM386 is dead. There are hundreds of few-hundred-milliwatt amplifiers out there ...

It consists of a JFET based pre-amplifier, a Big Muff Pi a.k.a BMP based Tone control and an LM386 power amplifier ... Documentation to this level proves several things, most notably a love ...