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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Quickie => Topic started by: galyons on August 03, 2012, 06:21:57 PM
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My Quickie arrived from a fellow forum member. It was BH built and has the Speco transformers, but currently out of the circuit. I loaded it up with batteries , the stock GE tubes and let 'er rip! Wow!! I am having trouble believing what I am hearing. My main preamp is a PIO & DACt attenuator modified Rogue Audio Magnum 99. Hate to admit it, the Quickie gives it a run for the money. And that is pretty much stock. I have NEVER heard tubes sing like these GE's. :o They seem to be fine, just don't touch the unit or it will ring like "Quasimodo on the ropes"! I have the same tube in a 1947 RCA battery/AC powered portable radio and it is not microphonic, but different application. Some Herbies help significantly.
I ordered the PJCCS last week and the Queen got it here yesterday. It is built and ready to go in after a few more days of listening to stock. The PO also included some Mullards and I have 1945 Sylvania's and 50's RCA's on the way from ePay.
I will replace the output caps with PIO's. First in will be NOS Aerovox. (Really wax paper & foil, but that is being picky!)
Cheap fun and super sonics!!! Quickies are fun AND satisfying!!
Cheers,
Geary
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Geary - It's good to have another Quickiehead on board! It a fun kit for sure. Along with the PJCCS, the chokes are a worthy mod to play with. I swap my PJCCS with chokes every so often. The jury is still out on which one I like better. The PJCCS is a 'cleaner' sound but IMO the chokes are bit 'larger' and nicely euphonic when used in a digital rig.
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Geary,
Thanks for your impressions on this little wonder. Looks like my kit will be arriving this coming week and I just got some nice tubes for it with more on the way.
Can't wait to get started on it and coming up with an interesting enclosure or whatever, for it.
-- Jim
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Hey Jim - What tubes did you end up getting? I know you wanted the Telefunkies. I guess I got the last ones. I have a couple of Mullards. One went bad almost right away. I wasnt blown away or anything by their sound.
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Mazdas for now, mullards on the way -- but all made for blaupunkt.
-- Jim
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I'm going to try to get some more mullards. Where did you get them? How much? I think the ones I got were (very) used.
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I got them from ebay seller "cyrod", who is think is the same guy who had the teles. $20 for the quad, plus shipping of course. And the Mazdas came from ebay seller threemaudioshop in the Netherlands. same price for the quad.
Of course I still have no idea what these will sound like, how many of them will be good, etc., but I figure if I even get a couple of good pairs out of the dozen I'll still be doing ok.
-- Jim
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$20 for a quad of Mullards is a good price. I havent got my teles yet. Have to wait and see..