Do These Caps Make My Amp Look Big?
I've been enjoying listening to my Crack-a-two-a in its stock form for the past few months, save for the installation of some very nice tubes. I purchased a pair of Clarity caps around the time I finished building the amp and just got around to fitting them. It was necessary to reposition a couple of terminal strips and resistors, lengthen/shorten a couple of wires and fabricate some mounting blocks. Here’s the finished product. Tested it out. All seems good, and in the past couple days I've been doing some critical listening with the Sennheiser HD800S.
The amp is a lot more incisive with the upgraded caps, and vocals are more palpable. Percussion is delivered punch, impact, grunt and pace. Cymbals sound as real as I've heard, with natural timbre and sustain. micro dynamics. Vocals -- female and male -- are so present and there. Overall, music sounds real to me. I think it's safe to says I won't be doing any further upgrades to t he amp.
Joe.
I've been enjoying listening to my Crack-a-two-a in its stock form for the past few months, save for the installation of some very nice tubes. I purchased a pair of Clarity caps around the time I finished building the amp and just got around to fitting them. It was necessary to reposition a couple of terminal strips and resistors, lengthen/shorten a couple of wires and fabricate some mounting blocks. Here’s the finished product. Tested it out. All seems good, and in the past couple days I've been doing some critical listening with the Sennheiser HD800S.
The amp is a lot more incisive with the upgraded caps, and vocals are more palpable. Percussion is delivered punch, impact, grunt and pace. Cymbals sound as real as I've heard, with natural timbre and sustain. micro dynamics. Vocals -- female and male -- are so present and there. Overall, music sounds real to me. I think it's safe to says I won't be doing any further upgrades to t he amp.
Joe.