[DenverW]

Hello there, thought I would say hello now that I finally own a Crack, albeit a heavily modified one, after hankering several years for one.

I am not a builder, hence why several years have passed I guess, but the opportunity presented itself some time ago to have one built for me.

My headphones are the HD800S and Utopia’s, and I really wanted to be able to use my Utopia’s if possible, and be able to switch from 6sn7’s to the Mullard ecc32’s, seeing as I have a few.

After several months of trial and error I now have my Crack, which sounds wonderful and I am really pleased with it. The brief was almost met too, by a whisker, regarding the Utopia’s.
These headphones really do sound good with this Crack, even with deep bass from guitars etc. The only time the bass gets into trouble is with some EDM, and when there is a constant deep electronic bass in the background, whereby control is lost.
Well, I’m a happy bunny as I don’t have much of this music in my collection.
A few pics.

That’s lovely! With a dash of overkill .

 

[JTbbb]

That’s lovely! With a dash of overkill .

I like things over engineered

 

[JamieMcC]

Noticed this Korean Sex video English subtitles, happy ending

 

[Tom-s]

Shown on the previous page: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/bot...ck-sex-mainline.683012/page-140#post-17165968

Was the brother of this amp I have for sale.

With the same configuration build for ECC32 and 6SN7GT as optional driver tubes. This via a switch on the Speedball small board.

See pictures.

Link to listing: https://www.head-fi.org/classifieds...80-full-option-build.37743/#hfc-comment-56232

 

[mfadio]

Any tips for taping the transformers to paint the bells on a S.E.X. kit? Just regular ol' blue tape?

 

[Armaegis]

Any tips for taping the transformers to paint the bells on a S.E.X. kit? Just regular ol' blue tape?

If you're careful you can unscrew and take it off... but if you're unsure of that, then yeah good quality painter's tape is the way to go.

 

[MikeO3]

Any tips for taping the transformers to paint the bells on a S.E.X. kit? Just regular ol' blue tape?

I put the wires in a baggie and ty-rap both ends then blue tape around the baggie to complete the top up to inside the hole.

 

[mfadio]

kit done. Audionote volume pot installed, which took care of low level channel imbalance. C4s is next.

Listening with a pair of rad-0. Loving it.