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    Headphone amp as good as Crack

    Maybe it's a stretch to put this in a guitar forum, but I do intend on playing a lot through headphones, so... I built the Bottlehead Crack headphone amp. It's an Output Transformerless (OTL) class A, all tube amplifier. It's great for headphones with higher impedance. I have Sennheiser HD650 and they're a match made in heaven.

    I guess this is my first real electronics project. It came out really great. I've just been using it for music as my guitars aren't built yet, but honestly I can't stop thinking about it and can't wait to get home every day to listen to more music. It's so good I bought another one for work. And it's so good I bought a slightly different version to use with my AKG headphones (the Bottlehead S.E.X. which has output transformer for lower impedance headphones.)

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    https://bottlehead.com/product/crack...amplifier-kit/

    Bottlehead has a great forum, similar to this one, with great support for building and modifying kits.
    Last edited by Joe Garfield; 15-08-2020 at 01:12 PM.
    *Pictures may be rotated due to my proximity to the equator.

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