HiFi Kit Building- have you ever built any hifi gear?


Way back, building a hifi component from a kit was an available alternative from many manufacturers; today, not do much. 
 

Have you ever built any gear from a kit? I’ve built two Bottlehead headphone amplifiers. 

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Okay so I'm dating myself here.

In days of yore I built a Dynaco Quadapter (Remember "Quadraphonics"?) then a Dynaco PAT-4 preamp. And finally a pair of Hafler DH-220 kits with the optional bridging kits to turn them into monoblocks at the flick of a switch. (aka DH-222) A nice clean 450 watts into 8 ohms...

Happy listening.

Built a Bottlehead Crack headphone amp and a pair of Zigmahornet speakers. No longer have any of it. 

Yes. Stated with a Hafler dh500 modification, then rebuilding my old Maggies' crossovers and to a whole preamp (tubes for hifi sp14)  Best result, I've learned what the components do and have started modding them for my taste. For 3xample, adding a remote volume control to the preamp. Next step, the GR Research xoxer mod for the Maggie's. 

I started with a Heathkit multiband radio, then I built almost everything David Hafler kit and the last kit I built was the Dynaco Stereo 400 with the meters (of course).

I built the CSS 1TDX and 2TDX speaker kits.  They have a lot of bang for the buck, and it was fun.