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RE: All good points

Don't tell anybody but I once took a hole punch to a Citation II and put a 6sn7 based Williamson front end with low NFB. I up-tapped the output transformer to get a higher impedance for the triode strapped 6550s.

Less power but it's a great sounding amp in a bi-amped situation (crossover at 100Hz) with the lows filtered out at the input. (when you up-tap an output transformer the reflected impedance goes up but the primary inductance doesn't change so the LF -3db point goes up an octave)

My cousin still uses that amp and loves it.

Looking back, I could have just built the thing with 6cg7s and kept the value instead of "cutting up" the chassis but at the time Cit IIs weren't worth that much. I think I paid $100 for that one. I owned 4 of them at one point.

Tre'
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