Loaded with tubes

I am using a 1958-61 vintage CBS (Hytron) 6AX5GT rectifier, a Soviet era (1988) 6N9S (6H9C in Cyrillic) and a pair of those 1974 vintage Sylvania 6AV5s triode strapped internally and sold as JAN 6B4Gs.

I have something of a shortage of good small music players, so I used this crap MP3 player I had and all I got was buzz, so I thought, "This is wrong!" So I switched it to a Cassette(!) player with an old slave copy from the mixing-deck tape of my first album from years ago. Sound! Me on Backing vocals! Nice.

It works!

So I loaded a pair of 8" Sammi (Korean) single-cone speakers into my Herb Jeschke/Lowther Club of Norway design Voigt Pipe speaker cabinets (think 6" tall by 1 foot square wooden right pyramids with a speaker 1/2 way up) and hooked the amp to my Zonbu (A cheesy Linux box that si silent and lowe energy, it draws 20 watts of power maxed out)

First songs were 1) My "Reference" song for demoing stereo gear for the last 20 years, "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits. Nice transients for a 3 watt amplifier! Next up is "Sweetness and Light" from Gala (1988) by Lush, in honor of my 6N9S. Freebird is in there for sentimental reasons (I call for it at every concert I go to, mostly to annoy those standing near by).

This little amp delivers the goods. My speakers are no where near finished much less broken in, and I am already hearing things in the mix I have never heard, and I have been listening to these guys for 20 years. Cool.

I do have some hum, so that will take some looking into. No, the amp hasn't forgotten the words...

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