Kraken 3way Speaker - 18" WooferThe Kraken marks Justins first scratch built design in more than 10 years. It represents the deployment of the best drivers to be sourced. For more than 18 years, Justin of ampspandsound has been designing, refining and building horn loaded speaker systems. The Kraken is Justins dream of power, scale, tonality and intimacy. The Kraken is a partial horn loaded three way loudspeaker system. Utilizing a direct radiating 18 woofer for low frequencies, and

but perhaps a little more warmth

The return of the Agartha in 2021 was the first major breakthrough helping us to bring Direct Heated Triodes to headphones without feedback or other less than desirable tools

combined with a generous choke

the Citation II was settled on as the basis for the design

Each SUT is a single channel and ratio as to negate the need of a switch

and represents the pinnacle of our philosophy: hand built on turret boards using ultra pure point-to-point wiring

The rear tail section houses panel mount versions of the I/O

we paired the finest coupling caps

Tube Selection:Input tube: 12AX7 or equivalentOutput tubes: 6L6GC

the kind of voicing that conveys intimacy and presence

tonality and intimacy

the Red October is entirely hand assembled using point to point wiring and turret board constriction