What's in the box

My Blackface Vibrolux Reverb kit made its way from Weston Florida, to Canberra Australia via Fedex international economy (5 days from door to door). The box was very well packed and everything survived the trip intact.

All components are individually bagged and labeled. Marsh Amplification provided a detailed Bill Of Materials and everything checked off against the BOM except for one resistor (82 Ohms instead of 82K Ohms). I sourced a replacement locally for a total cost of less than 10 cents.  Full marks for attention to detail here.

I believe that the kit was originally sourced from Mojotone, with a few added extras from Marsh including the Vibrolux Reverb face plate and the build guide (Mojo don't sell a Vibrolux kit at the time of writing.)

The transformers are made by Heyboer,   but you can also choose Mercury Magnetics as an upgrade if you want to spend the extra coin. The Power Transformer has multiple taps on the primary winding for international AC power standards (110V, 210V, 220V, 230V, 240V). Other components include:

• Orange Drop and TAD capacitors
• Xicon carbon composition resistors (faithful to the original spec)
• Accutronics reverb tank
• Switchcraft jacks
• Vintage-correct cloth covered wire.
• Valves from JJ (3 x 12AX7, 2 x 12AT7, 1 x GZ34) and Electro Harmonix (2 x matched 6L6GC).

I chose to go with 2 x Weber 10A125 Alnico speakers as an upgrade from the standard ceramics.

I spent a stupid amount of time researching and agonising over speaker choice to find no real consensus on the "best" choice for a blackface Vibrolux. It proves the old adage that "opinions are like A&*#@holes, everyone has one!"

If I don't like the sound after a decent break-in period I will change them out for something else and flip these on the 'bay.