![]() ![]() In addition, of the three kits I purchased, not one included all the parts (and given that a “kit” is just a box of parts, that’s a bit of an oversight). Barring that, they are one long, continuous exercise in frustration.īottlehead designers appear to be engaged in a contest to see who can cram the most components into the smallest possible space, and hide solder joints behind other components so it’s impossible to get a soldering iron on them. I suppose they are easy if you have the patience of Job, the manual dexterity of a neurosurgeon, and the electronic debugging skills of a post-doctoral electrical engineer. Early in my explorations with tubes I bought several Bottlehead kits because they were the most popular tube amps, and they were advertised as “easy to build”. I guess that’s what led me to believe they were “easy to build”. ![]()
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