Description:
Circuits
Tweed Super
- Model #: 5F4
- 26 Watts
- Class AB
- Fixed Biased
Tweed Bandmaster
- Model #: 5E7
- 26 Watts
- Class AB
- Fixed Biased
Tweed Vibrolux
- Model #: 5F11
- 10 Watts
- Class AB
- Fixed 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) -- a must for a vintage, sweet tone
- Outstanding wiring techniques for a neat and clean look, less hum and less noise
Cabinet
- 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
- All grounds are done with 18 gauge stranded wire, translating in LESS HUM, LESS NOISE
Resistors
- High quality Carbon composition, important ones are usually NOS Allen Bradley or Riken Ohm (Made in Japan) high precision, gold plated copper leads.
- 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 (Made in Denmark) 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 P10R AlNiCo are standard
- Celestion, Eminence, Weber and other speakers are available upon request.
Tubes
Tweed Super
Output: (2) 6L6G
Preamp: (1) 12AY7 + (2) 12AX7
Rectifier: (1) 5U4GB
Tweed Bandmaster
Output: (2) 5881 (6L6GC)
Preamp: (3) 12AY7 + (1) 12AX7
Rectifier: (2) 5U4GB
Tweed Vibrolux
Output: (2) 6V GT
Preamp: (2) 12AX7
Rectifier: (2) 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)
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