the tubes and transformers get quite hot; hot enough to justify a protective cage

the tubes and transformers get quite hot; hot enough to justify a protective cage

I will leave out the musical examples ( such as the quite lovely and pure string tone it produces , or the fact that the bass is quick and quite quite good, something tube amps - like my mini watt , which for its price is a great little unit- suffer with usually) and simply say that this is not a 'coloring' or 'sweetening' amp

I can't explain it, and there's a ton of reading material on the web that describes why tubes sound warmer than solid state, and I've proven it to myself.

This one's good enough for me, good tubes and only took 3-days to get here...

Tube rollers may play with different brands of tubes and different types of permissible tubes like 6L6 / KT77 etc from EH,Gold Lion,Valve Art etc till they find the right tone

To me the 10 watts per channel sound like minimum and not the max but that is just a guess and taken from some more powerful tube amps I have had in the past

I have tested this with more expensive solid state and tube amps(push pull) and it wins out every time

These tubes definitely improved the sound, but not sure I would recommend as they were pretty $$$.

I have tested this with more expensive solid state and tube amps(push pull) and it wins out every time

Awesome tube amp for the price

The russian re-issue tubes are good but not as warm as PSVANE tubes provided

Right off the bat, the amp has the classic tube sound in spades

even rolled the tubes yet just under 20 hours on them and i am blown away by the depth of soundstage and how the sound is wider than my speakers