Thank you, guys. Very good comments, just what I was looking for.
Rcprince, the JA30 is indeed a wonderful amp. I tried it with kt88 and El 34. It sounds amazing on my quad 57 (for those looking for a good match with those), but on my ESP Bodhran, you hear it is getting stressed at times. Besides, I have preference for powerful amps. Even when I owned the Klipsch La Scala with its very high sensitivity, I always liked it better driven by many tube watts (well, actually it was my wife who set the tone here). Smaller amps can have higher resolution but they always lack, for me at least, the sense of ease that big amps have, which is more like the real thing for me.
Cheers.
Rcprince, the JA30 is indeed a wonderful amp. I tried it with kt88 and El 34. It sounds amazing on my quad 57 (for those looking for a good match with those), but on my ESP Bodhran, you hear it is getting stressed at times. Besides, I have preference for powerful amps. Even when I owned the Klipsch La Scala with its very high sensitivity, I always liked it better driven by many tube watts (well, actually it was my wife who set the tone here). Smaller amps can have higher resolution but they always lack, for me at least, the sense of ease that big amps have, which is more like the real thing for me.
Cheers.