Beginner wishes to build tube amp

Most of the major kits Spud amp, Transcendence OTL, Bob Latino Dynaco clones or Bottlehead amps have a quality end product and a very good support group forums around then and you couldn’t go wrong with any of them depending upon your determination and patience.

The big question is what kind of amp do you want to build and what speakers are you going to drive with it.

For simplicity and just starting out to learn the Spud amp is supposed to sound great and is really inexpensive to get into. Not a whole lot of power and is more of a gateway amp into the next level

Bottlehead offers a forum section for the beginner with an entire thread devoted to "how to" videos. Have heard good things about these kits but I can not speak from personal experience. However, I am a builder by trade and after watching one of the videos I would not be frightened of taking on the project.

I would practice a bit with the solder before doing it for real.

Good Luck.

https://forum.bottlehead.com/index.php?board=55.0

good advice so far ! Match the amp to the speaker or risk not knowing what tge amp is capable of…Ralph @atmasphere used to offer  one of his OTL amps as a kit if ya really want to dive off the deep end of things in the quality frontier…

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