Something BIG is coming on Black Friday

[Doc B]

https://youtu.be/dP0ybMa2Wfg

 

[vladimirwolfe]

You're just a tease Doc!

 

[ebag4]

You're just a tease Doc!

Agreed!

Hey Doc, you should give us more specifics so we can start breaking it to our spouses before holiday shopping commences.  ;D


Best,
Ed

 

[johnsonad]

Awesome video!

 

[Listens2tubes]

It' a stereo 300b amp. Start throwing hints.  8)

 

[Doc B]

Search word Kaiju?

 

[adydula]

Kaijū (怪獣 kaijū?) (from Japanese "strange beast")[1] is a film genre that features monsters, usually attacking a major Japanese city or engaging other monsters in battle. It is a subgenre of tokusatsu (special effects-based) entertainment.


Alex

 

[Doc B]

Just to clarify I was suggesting that those who want to know a little more about the amp search the Bottlehead Forum using the search term Kaiju. There will be more info coming on Friday.

 

[pboser]

Unless I am missing something, there is no sexual innuendo in the name?  Where is your sense of tradition, man? 

 

[Natural Sound]

Unless I am missing something, there is no sexual innuendo in the name?  Where is your sense of tradition, man? 

Its better than the drug references though.

 

[jusbe]

Its better than the drug references though.

Was that a drug reference? I understood it as keeping in the same tradition!  :

 

[wylymon]

I have a feeling it will have a "Monster" price...............

 

[pduk]

It's early morning here in the UK and I have just ordered one. Going to be asking for money for xmas from everyone to go into the Kaiju pot, but I'm sure it'll be worth it

Paul.

 

[Doc B]

Thank you Paul, and thanks to everyone who has preordered one. What a nice surprise to wake up to so many Kaiju orders!

 

[Alonzo]

Hey Doc,
One cleanup item for the Kaiju page.  Under the max power paragraph, you have "Paramount" when I think you want "Kaiju", or maybe you don't?
"...300B configuration allows the Paramount to work very well with high end loudspeakers of sensitivities as low as 93dB.  One can use two Kaijus strapped..."
Alonzo

 

[wylymon]

How about some pictures of the back and under the skirt?  How much does the beastie weigh?

 

[Paul Birkeland]

How about some pictures of the back and under the skirt?  How much does the beastie weigh?

Josh and I are in the thick of photographing the manual at the moment. When the manual is all wrapped up, we will post the final layout.

I think the amp weighs somewhere around 30 lbs.

 

[kgoss]

I know I'm being impatient since you guys are still in pre-order mode. But I'm curious about the pots in front of the input tubes. I think it is great if they are volume controls but the initial write up didn't specify. From the teaser shot that Doc posted it looked like the hum balance pots are behind the 300B tubes. I think volume pots would make system matching with high gain preamps a lot easier than adding padding resistors to the input. Just curious.

 

[Paul Birkeland]

They are level trims for each channel.  They can easily be bypassed, or one could pretty easily install input transformers and change the input jacks to XLR's, but there are so many situations where you want 12-20dB of padding at the input of an amplifier that we have insisted on including them with the stock amp.

 

[kgoss]

Cool, that's exactly what I hoped they were. Thanks Paul