Comments on: Ultimate Cracklebox

By: Chrome Dinette

Chrome Dinette — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:10:43 +0000

Is that any less safe than playing guitar? With an old amp with a 2 prong cord, you can end up with the hot wire on the strings if the plug is in the wall wrong.

Anyway, the only one of these I built with a line out used an isolation transformer in parallel with the speaker. I guess that doesn’t make it any safer from ac shock, but the impedance of the primary seemed high enough that it didn’t affect what came out of the speaker.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:37:49 +0000

the reason people don’t use crackleboxes with big amps/mains power is that you are physically touching the circuit, and in the (unlikely) event of a ground fault or short or something you’d probably be killed or at least be savagely electrocuted…

By: paul

paul — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:55:29 +0000

can we have some audio??

By: Chrome Dinette

Chrome Dinette — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:00:08 +0000

The extra bass that this emits makes it way more fun to play than a normal cracklebox.

Since efficiency is the key, maybe the cracklebox people should get together with the Lowther/Klipsch/Voight Pipe/Carfrae/etc folks.

By: rob

rob — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:39:43 +0000

))
I definatly love this one !
blogged.
thanks
rob

By: admin

admin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:34:46 +0000

that’s the one thing a cracklebox needs, a big loud amp. Too many people build them with the same crappy little speaker as the original. As if they were afraid it wouldn’t work.