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Chris Jones KS

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Welcome! I have built the following headphone amps and really enjoy all of them. The Noir is my newest and my favorite so far as a headphone amp (Hifiman Sundara's) and preamp. Pete Millett's was the easiest to complete.
  1. Mark Johnson's Noir HPA
  2. Wayne Colburn's WHAMMY HPA
  3. Pete Millet's NuHybrid HPA
I had fun and learned throughout each project. Hope you have fun, too!
 
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peterinhawaii

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thank you everyone. i posted some questions on the general store thread, i think i reached my limit on my own knowledge and googling on what to do. appreciate the welcome from everyone here. I think i want to do a amp camp instead of a HPA, but just trying to get a bit more research in before i commit. I think if i buy everything i need,it will be over $500 (solder, maybe a new soldering iron, multi meter)
 
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The amp camp amp was also my first project. It was a good starting point for me because I had no prior experience. I went on to build a bottlehead moreplay preamp, then the aleph j amp. The build guides for these are all great for beginners.
 
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Welcome to the diy board! I'm still relatively new myself here. I don't know whether that would appeal to you, but I had a lot of fun building a modern version of an old vacuum tube amp.

Victor Kung in Vancouver sells nice Elekit kits with very detailed english instructions, and I'm pretty sure he also ships to Hawaii.
I built a TU-8200R, which I believe is both a serviceable amplifier technically (even though not 21st century state of the art as far as power, distortion and signal to noise goes), and an example of a classic single ended pure class A transformer output tube amp, with a few modern electronic features added (automatic bias, tube overcurrent protection). It works as a headphone amp (I use Sennheiser HD6xx with it), and can drive speakers to sufficient sound pressure levels in a not too large room with a few Watt of power.
 
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peterinhawaii

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Gruesome said:
Welcome to the diy board! I'm still relatively new myself here. I don't know whether that would appeal to you, but I had a lot of fun building a modern version of an old vacuum tube amp.

Victor Kung in Vancouver sells nice Elekit kits with very detailed english instructions, and I'm pretty sure he also ships to Hawaii.
I built a TU-8200R, which I believe is both a serviceable amplifier technically (even though not 21st century state of the art as far as power, distortion and signal to noise goes), and an example of a classic single ended pure class A transformer output tube amp, with a few modern electronic features added (automatic bias, tube overcurrent protection). It works as a headphone amp (I use Sennheiser HD6xx with it), and can drive speakers to sufficient sound pressure levels in a not too large room with a few Watt of power.
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i was going to do a guitar amp, but i wouldnt have any use for the guitar amp. i still ahve all my guitar stuff, but i like the tech way more than actually playing guitar or getting even past a beginner stage lol. thats how i ended up with a amplifier when i didnt want to build a bluetooth speaker or a multimeter kit.
 
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