Comments by "Ian Montgomery" (@ianmontgomery7534) on "Tom Evans audio proves that their $30,000 audio preamp is garbage by filing a bogus copyright claim" video.

if you have access to an x-ray you can usually just take an x-ray and get the part number from the wafer - not always o course.
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@michaelblair5566 more likely it is to take off the date code which would show whether they are recycled or not.
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@viperwizard491 yeah but how much development went in to it if the circuits came from data sheets from the chip manufacturer. the cost of parts on that would not be USD100 (except for the box) I expect from what i could see and the actual labour involved in building it would not be huge either. I have no problem with people recouping R&D if they don't get grants or tax incentives but this is a bit strong. To me it looks like about a USD2,000 product.
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