Originally Posted by
Pharos
I tend to agree Steven on valves, having built numerous amps with them, they look nice, comforting, have poorer specs., are inefficient, and need maintenance.
Used my Nelson Jones class A 10+10 for about 5 years and one channel went dead.
Borrowed a friend's Lowther amp, and the bass was uncontrolled, woolly.
Then bought a 303 and the bass in that was also woolly, so I sold it to a BBC engineer.
It turned out that there was a manufactured faulty BC107 that had failed in my own amp, replaced, done.