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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Quickie => Topic started by: aragorn723 on January 03, 2014, 03:06:46 AM

Title: distortion on Quickie with PJCCS
Post by: aragorn723 on January 03, 2014, 03:06:46 AM

This morning I was listening to a CD with the Quickie, and heard distortion on both channels.  It sounded kind of like a fuzzy noise.  What could be causing the problem?

Title: Re: distortion on Quickie with PJCCS
Post by: corndog71 on January 03, 2014, 03:41:21 AM

Have you checked the voltages on your batteries?

Title: Re: distortion on Quickie with PJCCS
Post by: aragorn723 on January 03, 2014, 06:53:24 AM

Looks like its time for some 9v batteries:

IA/IB 3.22v / 3.22v
A6/B6 2v / 2v

Title: Re: distortion on Quickie with PJCCS
Post by: Paul Birkeland on January 03, 2014, 07:04:50 AM

Yes, the D-cells and the 9V batteries will wear out at roughly the same time.

Title: Re: distortion on Quickie with PJCCS
Post by: aragorn723 on January 03, 2014, 07:43:23 AM

Quote from: Caucasian Blackplate on January 03, 2014, 07:04:50 AM

Yes, the D-cells and the 9V batteries will wear out at roughly the same time.

Am i better off changing both at the same time?

Title: Re: distortion on Quickie with PJCCS
Post by: aragorn723 on January 03, 2014, 04:46:14 PM

Quote from: corndog71 on January 03, 2014, 03:41:21 AM

Have you checked the voltages on your batteries?

Thanks, that fixed it!

Title: Re: distortion on Quickie with PJCCS
Post by: Grainger49 on January 04, 2014, 01:17:55 AM

Aragorn,

I go through the same thing when I have a worn out pair of tubes.  The Paramour drivers and the Foreplay 12AU7s are the usual ones that need to be changed out.  But not both pair at the same time.  Of course it is years between these happenings but I always think that it is something else, not the obvious.