[font=trebuchet ms]And another thing...

I love tube amps. I own an Ampeg VT-40 that I salvaged and rebuilt into a system that makes people sit up and notice, and a VT-22 that I've tweaked into a tone-beast that can rearrange the furniture in the next room!

But do ya know what I take with me when I jam wiith my buds? I toss a pair of old Ampeg G-18 10 Watt 1x8" transistor combos into the trunk of my car, and when I get there, everone says "Hey, great! You brought those little amps!" They sound flat-out amazing, and no-one goes home with their ears ringing.

[u]Bottom Line[/u]: A great-sounding amp is a great-sounding amp. Your ears can't read the nameplate or suss out the schematics. It's every bit as possible to design and build a good transistor guitar amp as it is to build a crappy tube guitar amp.

'nuff said.[/font]