Bottlehead Quickie Pre Amp
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Faustin
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Bottlehead Quickie. Original owner. It has upgraded Mundorf Supreme and Blackgate caps. Also, the stock volume pot was replaced with an Audionote potentiometer. Battery life is between 100 - 150 hour. It uses 2) 3S4 tubes. This flavor of tube is microphonic in nature. If you tap on the side of the base you can hear it ringing. Other than that it is dead quiet. It will include 3) sets of tubes. One set will be Brimar tubes that are by far the quietest of all the different brands I have tried. The purchaser can pick the other 2 sets from several other brands I have on hand. A coupe of different year RCA, RT, Sylvania and possibly some more - I will have to check. I will include the batteries that are currently in it. Not sure how much life is left in them. And, FWIW, Bottlehead recently retired the Quickie.
I used this primarily with a SS amp. For the money it is quite impressive. I sold my SS equipment and have currently been using a pair of BH 300B Paramount monoblocks. I did not like the way the Quickie and 300B's played together, so it has not had much use the past 8 months or so. It is in very good condition, and satisfaction is guaranteed.
Asking $250 or best offer plus shipping from 60914. It should not cost very much to ship, as it is not very heavy. Paypal friends and family.
Bruce
I used this primarily with a SS amp. For the money it is quite impressive. I sold my SS equipment and have currently been using a pair of BH 300B Paramount monoblocks. I did not like the way the Quickie and 300B's played together, so it has not had much use the past 8 months or so. It is in very good condition, and satisfaction is guaranteed.
Asking $250 or best offer plus shipping from 60914. It should not cost very much to ship, as it is not very heavy. Paypal friends and family.
Bruce
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Nice pre!Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD. -
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can't believe someone hasn't snapped this up.
It is a fun and nice sounding little minimalist preamplifier.
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Price reduction bump. $225
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mhardy6647 wrote: »can't believe someone hasn't snapped this up.
It is a fun and nice sounding little minimalist preamplifier.
Come on sir, you know you want this!
Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD. -
I have one (still unbuilt)...
Worse than that, I have a brand new, unbuilt original Bottlehead "Foreplay" preamp in its original box a-sittin' in the basement. I bought it for my father to build, many (many) years ago -- he never did, I 'collected' it from his effects after he passed away, and now it's in my effects
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Worse than that, I have a brand new, unbuilt original Bottlehead "Foreplay" preamp in its original box a-sittin' in the basement. I bought it for my father to build, many (many) years ago -- he never did, I 'collected' it from his effects after he passed away, and now it's in my effects
Don't guess you'd be interested in selling the Foreplay would you? If so, let me know.
--Gary--
Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out. -
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Going, going, gone. SOLD
