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"Spongebob" wrote in message
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I have read comments through the years about the problems tube amps
have ("always in the shop", etc.). Is this a reality? I live in a town
with no tube amp dealers, and would need to send it back to the
manufacturer
if it fails. Are my knees quaking for no good reason?

I have owned and enjoyed both tube and ss amps. Owning a high end tube amp
is akin to driving a high end sports car. If you want the perks and tweeks
to always work well, you must be willing to put up with slightly less
reliability and a little more on-going maintenance which is not inexpensive.
But, for the people who enjoy and want the tube sound, I suppose it's worth
it. Owning a ss amp is like driving a Toyota, it _may_ not give the best
performance always, but it hardly ever breaks. And the fact you can bitch to
your cronies about how long so and so's repair shop had your super duper
tube amplifier in for repair will certainly garner you some respect and/or
sympathy! Ha!