"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:03:59 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:

"Iain M Churches" wrote

snip 'my knob is my subwoofer' bleed-through

One often hears of people changing from an SS to a
valve amp. I have never heard of anyone going the
other way.

Neither have I.......

Sure you have. Me, Arny, and every other sensible audiophile past 50
years old - we *all* started with valves, because there was no choice.
Heck, the first 'hi-fi' amp I ever built was a 'flea power'
single-ended valve design! :-)

My first self-designed, self-built hi fi amp was push-pull 6V6's. My second
was push-pull 6BQ5s. I progressed from there to 7591s and EL 34s. I did
EL84's some place along the way.

I then progressed to 2N2147s, then 40410s, then 2N5630 and 2N6030