Quickie 1.1

Name: Bottlehead Quickie 1.1
Brand: Bottlehead

Bottlehead

AmplifiersTube AmplifiersPre-AmplifiersDiscontinued

Estimated price (community-sourced)

$99

About the Quickie 1.1

The Bottlehead Quickie is a battery-powered tube preamplifier kit featuring one directly heated 3S4 pentode tube per channel wired as a triode. It offers two switchable inputs and runs on batteries, providing a clean, musical, and dynamic sound with a relatively simple circuit design. The Quickie is known for its smooth, natural tone and good imaging, with some microphonics issues that can be mitigated by tube swapping or adding a constant current source (PJCCS). It was designed as an affordable, high-value kit Despite its low price, it delivers a sound quality that rivals much more expensive preamps, with a clean presentation and musical excitement. The kit includes detailed step-by-step assembly instructions and is praised for its ease of build and excellent manual. The Quickie is now retired and no longer manufactured.

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