Everything except heat paste was in the box. Excellent instructions, but two things to watch - this project is not like the amp camp amp and starving student II, which were made for anyone and everyone to build safely - you can electrocute yourself with this project. To death. Perhaps before turning it on cover the 120/240 volt ac live track parts with beads of hot glue? Someone else will have better advice. Second thing, the instructions are excellent, but I still needed to remove some resistors I had put on the board after successfully leaving them off earlier in the build - look at and compare the assembled board picture when you've finished yours, before turning it on. As a preamp for the amp camp amps it is truly special. I thought the ACAs were having serious bass run-on, but there was just more, a lot more, happening in the bass department, all of it clearly defined, and the concert bass drum reverberations were supposed to happen. Happy building.

Thanks to all the good folks on DIY forum for providing easy to follow guide and suggestions/tips. I built my Whammy in 4 days (2-3 hours per day). The most difficult part was the chassis as it's my first real diy project and I didn't know how to properly use power tools :) Quality of the board is great and the shipping took only one week to Ontario Canada. I'll definitely consider more projects from the DIY audio store! Thanks for making diy accessible to newbies!

I have several other DIY headphone amps. This one has the most well behaved turn on and turn off transients, i.e. almost none. No worries about damaging delicate drivers. Whammy has absolutely gobs of gain without noise. It can easily drive even low sensitivity planar magnetic headphones. I'm on #2 of 5 different front end opamps that I bought to try out and the differences between #1 and #2, although subtle, are there for the listening due this very clean circuit design. DIY audio doesn't get any better than this.

Build includes switching HP jack, preamp output jacks, noise filtering IEC inlet, front panel power switch and LED. All easy to add, although the Hammond chassis does get a bit tight and parts layout a bit critical.

I have 4 other DIY headphone amps and this one is the quietest and has the most well behaved power turn on and turn off characteristics. I surmise that's due to its excellent internal power supply. The circuit has gobs of gain, enough to drive even my low sensitivity planar magnetic headphones. I added a 2 amp noise filtered IEC inlet, power switch/LED and output jacks to the original design. This unit functions well as a preamp, quite beyond my expectations. The new heart of my desktop system.

Building the Whammy kit was straightforward with only one operator error around the three regulator strategies..if the preferred one is LED regulation, that should ideally be the first one outlined in the Guide. Its a small point and Jim ( 6L6 ) was kind enough to message and Facetime so we sorted it out very quickly. He also suggested a simple to wire the kit for a pre-amp output using a switched phone socket and how to get a Blue LED power on connection from the board. Very helpful

I built the board into a Modushop Galaxy 1 U 230 x 230 / steel cover / 10mm faceplate enclosure ( see pix ) That gave plenty of space for the mains connector and space to fit a bigger phone connector. Ideally the faceplate would be machined to fit the pot and socket which are both designed for thinner faceplates. I made a little sub panel to carry both items and the power on LED., as well as lining up all three items on the centerline of the fascia ( a bit obsessional I know ) This was acheived by using a 3mm spacer strip between both the top and bottom panels and the case sides. Combined with the thinner steel covers that gave just enough clearance for the board and components. If the covers were made with the slots above the regulator heat sinks cooling would be improved but I havent noticed any problems. Jim was a bit concerned about the screening afforded by a case with no continuity of grounding between the panels but any noise is below my tinnitus level so I dont perceive a problem! The use of the Galaxy case gives a good visual continuity between Whammy and my integrated ACA and Monoblocks...all it really needs is the cool Pass logo from the ACA.

My son and me build each an Whammy. Easy building, excellent sound. No trouble building them. After recieving the parts we spend xmas time together stuffing the beautyfull pcb. A instant-sound-project :)

What a great little board. Easy and fun to build, parts readily available, and sounds phenomenal!

Very good and very easy built project .
Excellent performance.