Seymour Duncan Antiquity Broadcaster

Pickup features: Traditional passive single-coil
Impedence or other specs: 6.83K

Model of guitar or bass: Warmoth Tele, swamp ash, vintage-style neck with 9" radius.
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced:
Other pickups on guitar: Antiquity II Tele neck, rw/rp
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): Rock & Soul, James Brown to Jimi Hendrix to Dylan
Reason for pickup change:

Perceived output level: True Vintage Tele output all the way.
Tone: First In Class. The Magga Mojo. The Funky Stuff.
Sonic evaluation: Lord, I love these pickups. I've played pre-CBS '60s Teles whose magnets couldn't touch these. Should be installed in a real ashtry bridge with 3 brass saddles for true soul power.
I'm using a '61 Bandmaster or a reissue Vox AC/30 with blues. Analog delay, a touch of clean compression, some FuzzFace.
Has that "ragged chime" and upper midrange which only a traditional Tele setup can produce. Not too bright or beamy, gets a great rock rhythm sound with the tone control dialed back and the amp in overdrive.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Rock, soul, r&b, honky tonk, psychedelic, you name it.

Comments: The "aged" cosmetics on this series is unnecessary as far as I'm concerned, but whatever Seymour's people are doing to these magnets in the process works brilliantly. I suppose there are Nashville guys who want that ultra-bright, beamy '70s Tele tone and they're welcome to it, but if you grew up listening to music with that classic Tele sound, regardless of the genre, you're going to be hearing some familiar sounds when you give this piece a try. Well worth my money and time, and I'd expect to want one of these in every stock Tele I own or will own.
If Seymour would cut back on the sea of middling-sounding regular production pickups he's been turning out over the past 20 years and concentrate on getting this series into players' hands, he'd be doing everyone a big favor.