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Tyll Hertsens ROCKS!
QueenBottlehead:
This is an awesome video about soldering up a Crack kit -
Noskipallwd:
Wow, Tyll did a whole video on building the Crack, that's awesome. InnerFidelity is a great site.
Cheers,
Shawn
Grainger49:
That should be a Must See video for all new builders.
Thanks for linking it.
Did he break in the tubes first?
Tyll Hertsens:
--- Quote from: Grainger49 on September 18, 2012, 10:51:22 PM ---That should be a Must See video for all new builders.
Thanks for linking it.
Did he break in the tubes first?
--- End quote ---
I ran it in for about 30 hours before listening. Hope that was enough.
Here's a link to the InnerFidelity article: http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/marvelously-addictive-bottlehead-crack
Big thanks to all here for supporting this product and the DIY activity as a whole. Great stuff!
Grainger49:
Tyll,
I think it is great that you took all that time to both build the kit and do the comparison. Not to mention that the video will be a great help our newbies (to kits). I started on kits in 1965. What a piece of crap that was!
Breaking it in for 30 hours will get you a goodly percentage of break in. Paul Joppa and Dan suggest that most will happen by 100 hours. Of course the tubes used also have a lot to do with the sound character as well. Since the driver tubes were not the same you couldn't have just swapped the tubes to keep that on a level keel.
Sorry, I'm an engineer so I wonder about one to one comparisons. It is a sickness but I haven't found a treatment.
Again, I am happy to have this link on the site for guys who don't know how to solder. That, and your advice, will be a boon to Bottlehead.
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