300B Tube Amps with 15/16 Watts Per Channel?

@atmasphere I agree on the vintage amp transformers.  The citation II amps were legendary and would be flat down to about 8 or 9 Hz at full power.  The Sherwoods were generally pretty good as well as the Scotts and Fishers.  The Eico stuff can vary.  They were definitely built to a price point.   The best little EL84 amp I ever heard was the Sherwood.  If 10-12 watts/ch was enough, the little Sherwood integrated amp was quite enjoyable to listen to.  The Macs and Marantz amps also had very good iron.   The little Eicos, Heathkit, and others of that ilk were all over the map for quality of iron.  Honestly there are fabulous transformers wound today if you want to work with a winder and spend the money.  If you buy an off shelf Hammond, or Edcor or whatever you can certainly build a decent amp, but you will not the get the inner detail you will from a more expensive transformer.   You get what you pay for.   That is why Chinese amps for $1500-2000 are decent, but not great.  Good iron is over $1000 for a stereo amp....

Hit post too soon..  Great iron, not just good iron.  The kind of transformers that give you goosebumps if used in the right circuit.   If you use a Hammond, you will never hear what the circuit can do....

 If you use a Hammond, you will never hear what the circuit can do....

@donsachs Great for small guitar amps though!

I used to fix guitar amps for musician friends.  They are pretty simple.... (the amps, not the guitarists!)...  except Marshalls, which have many small pcbs and jumpers and inevitably it would be a failed bias pot on the board buried the deepest in the amp.  A 3 minute repair that took an hour to get to.   The thing was, I could always improve the amps, but they wouldn't want you to.  They WANT distortion.   So you just replace all the bad lytic caps, and make sure the operating points are where they should be, and put k40 oil caps in where old oil caps have failed, etc..  You can get away with making the power supply a bit stiffer, but that is it.  Otherwise the amp is too "clean" for a lot of guys....   So yeah, a Hammond is just fine for a guitar amp....