We should rename this thread to "Ck3 bought them all"
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ck3 wrote:I finally fired up the X23 Creme Brulee that arrived last Wednesday. Controls include the usual output level and pregain controls along with clipping and Albini/normal switches. The vero-board-based internal construction looks okay, and there is no battery clip.
The builder did a decent job on the paint and general aesthetics. I'm not sure what transistors were chosen. Its germanium clipping mode is significantly quieter than the silicon and no diode options and just barely achieves unity gain when the output is dimed.
Albini mode sounds like a standard percolator, while the normal position seems to misbias the circuit in a very gated and unevenly sustaining/blooming manner. Regardless of bias settings, it sounds much fatter and more compressed than most of the other percs in my current collection. Chimey tones are still possible at lower input gain settings.
There is also more hiss overall compared to other units. I originally thought one of the Zander Cafetieres would be displaced by the X23, but I'll probably end up flipping the Creme Brulee instead.
BetterOffShred wrote:Hopefully you can screen cap these and put them up, because as they say " a screen capture of a thousand words is worth more than a thousand words"
UglyCasanova wrote:Maybe you're both dicks. Big, fat, throbbing, clammy dicks fighting it out for dominance. Oh yeah. That's the stuff.
What were we talking about again?
pigmaker wrote:Personally, I refuse to put JHS, basic audio, and analogman on my board (let's not derail the thread any more than it already is)
BetterOffShred wrote:UglyCasanova wrote:Maybe you're both dicks. Big, fat, throbbing, clammy dicks fighting it out for dominance. Oh yeah. That's the stuff.
What were we talking about again?
Mmm clammy dicks
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