RL> Sure... and in advanced cases, you explain to the wife that list price
 RL> could have bought FOUR of what you just bought.
       Hehehehehe. :)
 RL> Nope... not true G.A.S.  A true G.A.S. sufferer has no remorse after
 RL> getting home.
       No remorse until the wife has a real fit, though. :)
 RL> Probably not.  Output wattage is a function of plate voltage, the
 RL> impedance of the output tubes, transformer, the number of output tubes,
 RL> and of course, the level of the signal hitting the grids.  IF an EL34 
as
 RL> the same impedance as a 6L6 (it's gotta be reasonably close because
 RL> Carvin allows you to use either with a simple flip of a bias switch),
 RL> then the plate voltage would be comparable in any 100 watt amp.
       Say that an amp with four EL34s were biased as high as they could be, 
of course within reason, how many watts would that hit? I remember you saying 
something like it has a tolerable limit of 700V on the plate, which is 
somewhere about 175% of the 6L6GC (which I think is 460V). Could I assume 
that somewhere between 160 and 180 watts could be achieved if pushed like 
that?
 RL> You couldn't get a JCM900 to distort on 10?  Something was wrong with
 RL> it... that's one of the highest gain amps available.
       Actually, it was closer to 8 and I ran it on the clean channel, but 
I'd still expect something... Think it makes a difference that it was 5881 
equipped?
 RL> Like I said... give Jim at AES a call.  He's got plenty of NOS tubes at
 RL> reasonable prices.
       Definitely will. Some RCA 7025s sound like a nice bet for this amp and 
a new GE 12AT7 for the phase inverter. That's how it's equipped now. I'm also 
thinking about getting Svetlana 6L6GCs to replace the Sovteks... But, of 
course, this depends on me having more than $12 a week after expenses... :)
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