![]() ![]() I had this left over from the E元4 build and I’m using it here to connect the input RCA sockets to the volume pot. (Love this stuff)Īs you can see from the pictures, the initial build includes a piece of the rather excellent IMO ‘Yarbo Audio pure silver interconnect’. As ever, everything is glued together with AN 6% Silver Solder. You can find the fairly long detailed story of that journey further down the Blog if you’re interested (‘Modding an ANK E元4 Level 4 C-Core – A journey down the rabbit hole’). In this initial build, I included a couple of bits I had left over from my earlier ANK E元4 build and modding journey. TBH, it looked just like the pics on the Bottlehead website anyway. Unfortunately, I forgot to take any pictures of the kit pre-Speedball. See my first build images below, showing the kit with the Speedball upgrade fitted. As much to reflect the modest cost and budget nature of the Crack kit itself, why spend loads on tweaks when you could simply spend the money on something better in the first place. Also, a big thank you to the lovely Queen Eileen over the sea at Bottlehead HQ, who helped me out resolving some issues I was experiencing placing my order and for generally being lovely throughout the process. Thanks again Eileen…įor this build I have chosen to go with a slightly more modest approach to the modifications, trying where possible to keep the costs down overall. As always big props go to the awesome guys here at .uk for the majority of the mod parts that I’ve used in the build. "Here we have details of my latest build and modding journey for the newest kit in my collection, the excellent Bottlehead Crack with Speedball Upgrade. This kit suits high impedance headphones. This kit is their all new output transformerless valve headphone amplifier featuring the double triode 6080 valve. In outline, US-based Bottlehead has been creating valve kits for some time and have a good following. reviewing the Bottlehead Crack Headphone Amplifier kit and detailing some of his very own tweaks. This blog post was sent in by a loyal customer, R.T. ![]()
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