Also Sprach Tom Scioscia:
TS>On , Duncan Markley wrote to Mark Vansickle :
TS> DM> The 900's don't sound too bad to me, but if you look at the inter
TS> DM> (as with every major amp manufacturer today) they had to make the
TS> DM> cheaper to compete, and unfortunately they went to pcb-mounted tu
TS> DM> sockets and pots.  The 900 has a particularly wimpy output transf
TS> DM> that is rather infamous for going up in smoke under professional 
Your message to me (quoted by Tom) must have happened just after we lost 
our local bbs for a few weeks.
  Judging from this excerpt and from later parts of the thread, I should 
look for an 800 (even though it's not bloody likely that I'll run across 
one like you mentioned in a later post--the one that "got away") which has 
EL-34's.  And, since they've not yet gone into "price runaway" like the 
Plexi's have, I ought to do this fairly soon.
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