just gott home, a 4hr trip almost, but it was worth it. Introducing the PYE PF41, KT66 monobloc(RCA KT66's), and PF41A pre. These were made in about 1954, and are extrememly rare, maybe rarer than my PA-100 Mk-1's.

Damn, you sure find some awfully purty pieces.

Wow, another electrohome rarity? Where do you find these?

- JP

thanks hakka!! And man she sounds sweet!!

JP, this one is made by PYE, in association with Cambridge University... she's an English amplifier, with worldwide voltage too!

Congrats, my friend. That's imo a very rare tube amp.
From what i know in the 1950s Pye were a very large company when electronics in Britain had received an enormous boost from military advances in the Second World war.

A company that could make valve VHF direction finding equipment accurate and stable enough to locate a U-boat in the Atlantic and reliable enough to survive 16 continuous hours operation in a piston engined aircraft could easily design and build an AF amplifier with a flat response from 2Hz to 160kHz once they had decided it was necessary.
The range of audio amplifiers that bore the "Pye, Cambridge" brand were each intened to be the very best products the company could manufacture in each class. The people who designed and built them had been involved with the military contracts and had the advantages of knowledge and equipment that were beyond the resources of the contemporary companies that we think of as the founders of "hi-fi".

Have fun.

thanks Alvaro! I've spent some time cleaning and waxing this old girl, and while she sounds oh so sweet, I'm afraid she'll be finding a new home, most likely with a PYE collector in England. Man I wish I could keep them all!!

BTW, the last pair, without tubes, sold for $3500US.

You know very well you can't keep them all... so, make some money and move on...

Holy poop, Batman! Caught on the horns of a dilemma. Great to know you have one but money talks. And, in this case shouts.