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RE: Are you interested in sound quality or preserving monetary value?

One thing that I found is that you are responsible for any mods that are made and it will almost assuredly decrease the resale value as buyers question what was done. I do a lot of refurbishing work on tubes amps for other people and I cringe when I get one that has been modded. The biggest issue is no documentation of the mods and the quality of the work done.

I am not going to get the modded one in case I ever want to sell it. My goal is to make it my main listening amp in my hobby room so I want sound quality, but I don't think it could be that much better than what I'm hearing now. I am very pleased with its performance.

Interesting on your experience of the 8B being light on bass. To me, it seems to be about the same as my Mac tube amps, although the Mac amps seem to have a little more lower midrange. The 8B I'm auditioning still has the original power supply caps. I've found that replacing the tired old filter caps with new ones and increasing their value helps the bass response to some extent. The 8B has only 40uf for the filter cap that feeds the primaries of the output transformers. Increasing that is not really a "mod" and should help overall performance (or at least can't hurt).
Scott

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