Any plans to bring back the crack-a-two-a?

[phatfish]

Or a similar souped up OTL headphone amp?

[Paul Birkeland]

I think that when we put out the Crack-a-two-a, people thought a "souped up OTL headphone amp" was a Crack with a choke in the power supply and some 100uF film caps at the output.  The performance improvements offered by the C2A are difficult to properly explain to someone who is hyper focused on what $50 in replacement parts can do, and really on that basis the kit wasn't all that popular. 

There are lots of other ways one could go in terms of making OTL headphone amps, but whatever we would do would compete with the Crack itself, so doing a $1000+ OTL kit may end up being an exercise in futility!

[Doc B.]

To add to what PB says here - we retired it simply because we didn't sell nearly as many as we did Crack kits. Interestingly most of the components that go into the kit are still on our shelves. We even have a few chassis panels, IIRC. If there were, say, three people who would commit we might be able to get the parts we don't have in stock and do a small run of Crackatwoas. I can look into this in the coming week.

[caffeinator]

I think I'd be in for a Crackatwoa.

[phatfish]

I appreciate the response and explanations!  Add me to the list of those who would purchase a kit.