It's alive!

[Doc B]

Yeah the new attenuator is da bomb. Even better than the slightly different prototype that we cooked up a few months ago. The bass is so punchy that we decided to shoot the system to see if the speakers I had tuned by ear were balanced right. Happy to say they were spot on. Nice to have these guys with math degrees working for Bottlehead, who are willing to do all the tedious number crunching for a complex device like this fine/coarse control. PB was a little freaked that the expensive new switches were noisy when he first ran them. A tiny spritz of Deoxit made them perfectly silent. We will probably spritz them and bag them for the kits so they arrive in perfect condition. We should have a kit price soon, probably around $250 or so.

 

[mp9]

But NOT left and right channel volume?

No, but there is a way in the upgrade to trim each channel if you wanted.

You could also buy a pair of mono 24 step attenuators and use those if the independent volume controls are a big priority.

In my own experience, I find that two controls with lots of steps can get a bit annoying, as getting both controls on the same stop gets increasingly difficult.

what K, i.e., 25K, 50K, 100K or other? Also will the BH attenuator upgrade be available to ship along with the first run of the Bee?

 

[Paul Birkeland]

what K, i.e., 25K, 50K, 100K or other? Also will the BH attenuator upgrade be available to ship along with the first run of the Bee?

50K or 100K would be OK.

We still need to create the manual for the attenuator upgrade, and there may not be any time for this until the first week of February, and the BeePre kits should have begun to ship at that point. 

As with all other kits, we recommend building them stock first, then installing the upgrades later.

-PB