Hi,

It took a while, but I put together an EAR834 clone using a Hammond 369 Transformer and 3 electro-harmonix 7025 tubes. I have built one board from scratch, and I also bought a prebuilt one to test as well to see if I was doing something wrong.

I have an st-70 that I tried as an amplifier and a cheap chinese one and both give me the same results. The first track is the sound it makes when it first gets power. IT settles down after a minute. The second clip is the music at about 1/3 volume and it sounds terrible. The recordings are with the board straight from ebay with no real modifications. I also have one I built and they both sound the same. The only thing I can think of is maybe the solder connection to the rca jack is not the best. I am using the same ones as in the video.

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Greg