a couple random technical questions

[aragorn723]

Hi,

It has been a while since I built the Quickie, but don't remember seeing anything on ESD.  Is that because the components aren't particularly sensitive?  Also, is the Quickie phase-inverting?

Dave

[Paul Birkeland]

The Quickie is polarity inverting (all Bottlehead preamps ever produced invert polarity, except the Submissive).  Resistors, capacitors, batteries, and tubes aren't ESD sensitive.

-PB

[aragorn723]

So does that mean to get the best sound the positive and negative should be switched?  (hook up + amp to - speaker and vice versa).  Thanks,

Dave

[Paul Birkeland]

So does that mean to get the best sound the positive and negative should be switched?  (hook up + amp to - speaker and vice versa). 

Does your amplifier also invert polarity?

You can listen to it both ways.

-PB

[aragorn723]

Paul,

The amp doesn't invert polarity..  It's kinda fun to see that there are still things to play with on the Quickie!  Just changed the coupling caps to K75-10s, and got some black gates to replace the 150uf caps.  So much to tweak, so little time 

Dave

[Doc B.]

This is just one place where a polarity flip can happen. It can happen in every other piece of gear and at each driver in your speakers. All that matters is the polarity of the drivers.

[Grainger49]

So does that mean to get the best sound the positive and negative should be switched?  .  .  .   

The worst thing about keeping absolute phase in your system is that there is no standard on recordings.  Some invert absolute phase and some don't.

[Paul Joppa]

... and many multitrack recordings are different for different instruments ...

[aragorn723]

i tend to like the sound of woofers/subwoofers out of phase.  It isn't as loud as in phase, but has a tighter sound.  What would happen to tweeter sound?

Dave