JJ Electronic tubes continue to win converts for their reliability and consistency, so it was seriously interested when I heard about their three new power tubes: 6CA7, 6550 and a new tube called an EL844. We recently covered the 6CA7 over on WoodyTone.com, so here’ we’ll just deal with the other two. To find out [...]

Here’s the final part of the interview with Electroplex owner and amp designer Don Morris. Part 1 is here. AmpGAS: What was the first Electroplex amp? Don: My first model was the 90, which came out in 1994. Back then it was very hard to get good overdrive and low volume, so I built the [...]

“Major” GAS as in Marshall Major. Yes, at times those delicate towers of 150-200w power sound like freakin’ GOLD, baby! The vid below is what I’m talking about.

Are you aware of the relatively rare and not widely used 200w Marshall Major? This was a production amp between 1967 and 1974 (first called the Marshall 200 then the Major starting in 1968) which had four KT88 tubes – giving it 200w of brain-pounding power.

That’s right, me hearties, for the buy-it now price of $430,000 US (300K pounds) you can be the proud owner of an amp you may never want to fire up