This is an interest check for my Bottlehead Quickie. I purchased it factory assembled from Bottlehead with upgraded caps and tubes (NOS Mullards and NOS GE's) as well as the Headphone mod for around $220 shipped (can't remember exactly). This is a battery powered tube preamp/headphone amp. The kit is available as a preamp only from Bottlehead for $99 but you'd need to put it together, get a chassis, upgrade the caps and tubes, add transformers for headphone use, etc. I'm not sure they are offering it anymore pre-assembled for headphone use.
Anyway, I bought it to use as a preamp but wanted the option to use cans (works best with higher impedance cans, 250 ohm +). I have probably only put about 5 hrs on it total so its really in mint condition. I think I've just decided I really want a preamp with a remote.
Anyway, this is a great little preamp and headphone amp and if you've ever wanted to try tubes on batteries it doesn't get any cheaper than this. Bottlehead has AWESOME customer service and a great forum if you decide you want to try some mods on this thing yourself. There are some pretty creative guys over there.
More info is available here:
Quickie battery tube preamplifier
Mine is blue and looks exactly like the one on that page.
If interested, please PM me and we'll work out the details.
Thanks for looking!
Anyway, I bought it to use as a preamp but wanted the option to use cans (works best with higher impedance cans, 250 ohm +). I have probably only put about 5 hrs on it total so its really in mint condition. I think I've just decided I really want a preamp with a remote.
Anyway, this is a great little preamp and headphone amp and if you've ever wanted to try tubes on batteries it doesn't get any cheaper than this. Bottlehead has AWESOME customer service and a great forum if you decide you want to try some mods on this thing yourself. There are some pretty creative guys over there.
More info is available here:
Quickie battery tube preamplifier
Mine is blue and looks exactly like the one on that page.
If interested, please PM me and we'll work out the details.
Thanks for looking!
