lextek
Headphoneus Supremus
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Somebody suggested I post photos of my Crack build. Here's the first
yes I'm a little bored....
yes I'm a little bored....
Somebody suggested I post photos of my Crack build. Here's the first
yes I'm a little bored....
Hey Doc,
I see people talking about running a 6SN7 adapter in place of the 12au7 on the Bottlehead forum. Is this a plug and play adapter/tube combo? Or, does the Crack have to be modified some to make it work? If plug and play, where could I buy the adapter?
I'd ask the question on the Bottlehead forum, but am waiting on my approval over there.
Thanks,
Scott
I just bought a Crack amp from the for sale forum and have been doing some research on vacuum tubes and could just about hit myself repeatedly for wasting money on amps that aren't proper tube amps... So far in my hifi career I've listened to SS and hybrid amps such as the Schitt Lyr.
But I know I love tubes and prefer tubes... the reason why I know this is because I love the sound that comes from tubed guitar amps. I suppose the reason I've avoided tube amps so far is that they seem a bit daunting, but not anymore. And I haven't really understood the way the electronics and circuits work inside. Which is also silly cause I have experience with electronics and went to electronic tech school for the military... so I understand how electricity works.
Sheesh I just hope I've finally found the "sound" I've been looking for. I have some Senn HD600s that are inbound as well so I should be a happy camper at the end of the week.
I really think power tubes have a profound influence on sound, particularly from the 6AS7 family, which the Crack uses. I have the Woo 3, which also uses the 6AS7 family.
For the resistor-loaded Crack and Woo 3, this is probably the case. For a Speedballed Crack though, with the CCS-load, differences between power tubes is substantially reduced.
The 5998 is good, but you really don't miss much with a bog-standard $15 RCA 6AS7G.
Have you looked at the 6AS7 tube rolling thread? Lots of good info there.
Nope, thanks. Not that I know a thing yet, but I read that the Tungsol is a good tube to have, no?
It's here! I decided not to relocate the RCAs and headphone jack. Just build it "stock" at first. Hard to believe this pile of parts will make music.............
I read somewhere that one vacuum does the same work as 20-30 discrete, solid state parts.