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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Quickie => Topic started by: cpaul on July 29, 2015, 02:38:50 PM

Title: Oh the heat? Oh the Quickie.
Post by: cpaul on July 29, 2015, 02:38:50 PM

There are lots of reasons to like the Quickie.  The biggest of all for me this summer  8) is those tiny, low v, low w filaments.  Today it was in the mid-90s here in New England - and HUMID!  I had been using a decent but sub-Quickie quality 12AU7-based linestage with a 12AX7 phono stage built in, and it would crank out heat more than the sand amp I'm using (a Marsh A200).  In my fairly small, no AC living room, I could feel the difference if I were listening while working (I work from home).  But using Q, the heat level was noticeably lower.  When I turned off Q after several hours of listening to get me through a particularly tough project, the tubes were basically room temp.  Nice!  And yet I still get fabulous DHT tube sound.

So glad I pulled Q out to re-work her after too long.