Circuit

• Model #: 5F1
• 7 Watts
• Single ended Class A
• Cathode Biased

Hand Wiring

• Each amp is hand wired on vulcanized fiber tag board insuring durability
• solid cloth covered wire like the original (as opposed to stranded plastic coated wire) -- mandatory for a vintage, sweet tone
• Outstanding wiring techniques for a neat and clean look, less hum and less noise
• Circuit: 5F1

Cabinet

8" Champ

Dimensions: 13" (H) x 14 1/2" (W) x 8 7/8" (D)

12" Champ

Dimensions: 16" (H) x 20" (W) x 9 1/2" (D)

• Finger jointed solid pine
• Strong, durable
• Great natural resonance
• Hand Varnished Airplane luggage stripped Linen ( the exact material used for the original tweeds) for a natural vintage looking and feel, durable, washable

Chassis

• High grade Stainless Steel screws
• High grade Stainless Steel aircraft locking nuts for less vibration
• Industrial quality glass filled tube sockets, no rattling noise like NOS style counterparts. Tubes can be inserted and removed thousand of times

Resistors  

• High quality Carbon composition, important ones are usually NOS.
• Each resistor individually measured before wiring to insure exacting tolerances
• Low noise
• High temperature tolerance
• Extreme reliability
• Warm sound -- unlike metal or carbon film resistors

Capacitors  

• High quality Copper Foil/ Aluminum Foil  or Solen Fast (made in France) coupling & decoupling caps
• Sprague Electrolytic Sprague or  CDE (made in USA) for filtering caps
• highest quality and durability
• High quality caps are a key ingredient to the vintage tone
• All caps are formed slowly with a variac for stability and less noise

Power Transformers (by Mercury Magnetics in California)

• Highest quality transformers made by Mercury Magnetics
• Hand wound, paper interleaved
• Period correct voltages -- no cold, harsh, high plate voltages
• Center tapped filament -- no heater hum
• Available in 220V / 240 V / 100 V

Output Transformers (by Mercury Magnetics in California)

• Highest quality transformers made by Mercury Magnetics
• Manufactured using the actual Triad engineering data
• Hand wound, paper interleaved on paper bobbins
• High efficiency
• Rich harmonics - astounding tone
• Built to last forever
• Tremendous bottom end, shimmering highs, a lot of headroom

Testing 

• Every component (resistor, capacitor, pots, etc.) is tested before installation
• Every soldered connection is tested
• Voltage checkpoints are verified throughout the circuit
• I test every amplifier for a substantial amount of time (sometimes it's hard to stop playing...) and listen for potential rattling, vibrations sweeping frequencies with an audio signal generator.

Speakers  

• Jensen reissue P8R AlNiCo is standard for the 8" and P12R AlNiCo for the 12"
• Celestion, Eminence and other speakers are available upon request.

Tubes

Output: (1) 6V6GT

Preamp: (1) 12AX7 

Rectifier: (1) 5Y3GT  

Vintage tubes, NOS tubes fully tested and selected according to the player's style (blues, rock, country etc.), most are USA made (RCA, GE, Tung-Sol, Sylvania) apart from Mullard ( UK) and Telefunken ( Germany)