NAD: Reeves Super 18

[War_in_D]

Did some trading last weekend, and came home with this Reeves Super 18. I've been on the lookout for some lower wattage heads, and this popped up the FB Marketplace fairly close by. Asked the owner if they were looking for any trades, and I just happend to have what they wanted. Done deal! I was thinking it would be a little more "plexi" like, but it can get fairly high gain. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it.

Hand wired, on turret board. Information I could find said they use Heyboer Transformers.

 

[gibson08]

Very Nice ! Congrats !!

 

[marvcus]

Cool! Clips!

 

[JackBootedThug]

nice.

 

[Smash]

very clean

 

[RaceU4her]

damn that looks beautiful. isnt reeves from Hiwatt?

 

[War_in_D]

damn that looks beautiful. isnt reeves from Hiwatt?

From what I've seen online, I think there is some kind of tie in to Hiwatt with Reeves but I'm not sure how they are related.

 

[skoora]

IIRC, They just license the Reeves name and build Hiwatts and variations. Most clips I’ve heard are quite good on the straight Hiwatt model stuff.

 

[311splawndude]

Congrats dude.
Def looks like a Heyboer
Have fun

 

[glpg80]

Clean little amp congrats!!

 

[War_in_D]

Thanks for the kind words! It's really light too, so that's a plus. Comes in at just under 21 lbs. The chassis looks to be brushed aluminum, so that's probably helping keep the weight down. Would be a great little rig, with like a 1x12 cab to carry around to play other places outside the house just for fun (if I were to ever do such a thing these days). The only drawback, is there isn't an effects loop. This was the main reason the guy was looking to get rid of it. For home use, I could run it through the PS2 and use the loop there. I'm going to try to spend some more time with this this weekend, and run some different preamp tubes through it to see how they sound and maybe hit it with some boosts to see how it takes them.

 

[Devin]

Absolutely sexual

 

[stephen sawall]

Nice

 

[SpiderWars]

Very cool amp! My guess is that much of the magic in this amp happens in the power section so it's hard to put a useful loop in such an amp.

Reeves was the original Hiwatt founder/designer after a short stint designing the early Sound City amps. They didn't have the impeccable wring yet but did have quality parts/transformers. The wiring was Harry Joyce and they built military spec instruments. They were commisioned to build for Hiwatt. So that's where that tell-tale super clean right-angle wiring came from.