Golden tube SE-40 Special Edition

You may want to give Jeff Glowacki at Sonic Craft a call. Looks like he loves these amps and will upgrade/repair them for you or sell parts kits if you want to do it yourself. He's a really nice and knowledgeable guy and I'll bet he could answer any questions you have about the differences between the two models.

http://www.soniccraft.com/upgrades/se40.htm

There's also a user group on Yahoo

Everybody thanks for your input. Yes I have the bug to buy a class A system that is not priced out of the ballpark. There has been a lot of news about the SE-40 and I did talk to Jeff Glowacki.
I hate to nip at you but nobody has answered the question. Jeff says the only difference is the special edition has a bigger transformer, (he tried to sell me one). I am curious if there is any sonic difference.

I have a blown system due to an electrical power surge that I can fix our just move on to something new.
I have or had a:
Pioneer tu 9900 tuner
Pioneer ba 3000 Amp
Pioneer ca 3000 Pre-amp
All need serious work.

I will check out the Yahoo Forum. Maybe I should have done that first. Thanks again for the input.

At the price some of these Golden Tube amps go for they are almost worth it just for the trannies and chassis alone, maybe.