Here is your Groovey-Lookin' Tube Amp

It would be great to use for testing placebo effects in listeners if they don't know the cost.

And who knows, maybe it sounds ok (tho how you'd get a decent transformer for that price makes it unlikely).

The amplifier section on this unit is solid state...NOT TUBE!

Only the preamp section is tubed.

....nice try though.

No need for a transformers it's a hybrid, tube preamp stage SS amp stage. Probably class d though at that price but who knows 

it still has a transformer...

if not that, then what do you think will degrade the SQ?