
On top of that, building it yourself means you know what’s going on inside and can easily add to it and improve it either on your own or using the add-n “Speedball” kit from Bottlehead. Because of its DIY nature, you can get brilliant performance for a very low price. To put it into perspective, the Crack performs on par or better than products like the Woo Audio WA3 (~$580) and Schiit Lyr (~$550). If you want to know how easy it is to build one of these for yourself, you can check out the build post here: Bottlehead Crack – “The Build”įor $350, this amp is simply incredible. It costs around $350 fully shipped to Australia and takes a couple of days to put together if you take your time, but could be completed in a day of assembly, committed soldering and testing. The Bottlehead Crack is a DIY kit sold by Bottlehead in America. Designed for high impedance headphones (ideal with Sennheiser and Beyerdynamic cans).What does matter are the following details: I’m not going to start with the normal list of specifications for the Crack because it’s so variable due to the massive range of modifications you can make to it. The amp’s been in action for a few weeks now and I’m ready to share a review of my impressions. Recently I posted a review of the construction stage of my Bottlehead Crack amplifier.
