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RE: You are correct about the output trannies but not the Power tranny

Posted by 1973shovel on January 6, 2017 at 04:44:37:
When people talk about tube amps, the term "iron" is generally used to describe the output transformers, and "power transformer" is used to describe the power transformer.

My intent isn't to disagree regarding semantics, but I felt your statement about "better iron" could be misleading, especially to someone like the original poster who seems to be new at this.

And, as petercapo has already stated, the poster was asking about the MKIII amps, where the power transformers are acceptable.