any audiophile guitarists out there?


be curious what guitar setup you have, and does anyone know if a Single Ended Triode guitar amp is out there? --my fender blues jr is 15watt, and will blow me out of the room, so power isn't an issue.

gibson sg into fender blues jr, celestion greenback driver, and lava cables (yes, cables made a difference)
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I have an Emery Sound Microbaby guitar amp which is great to play around the house or could be used for recording. It is single ended and puts out 1-2 watts depending on the tube combination that you use. It is designed to use various output tubes (6g6,6Y6,6V6,EL84,etc) and can be mixed with various driver tubes (12Xa7,12ua7,12at7 etc.) It allows you to get many different sounds out of the same amp. Kind of like a modeling amp but just using different tubes. Has incredible tone and is lots of fun to play around with. I use it with a custom shop Strat, a vintage ES335 and a vintage Epiphone Olympic.
I've been playing for over 30 years..oops that kind of dates me.
I love my Fender natural ash American Tele, Eric Clapton Blackie Strat with noiseless pup's and my Taylor 810.
I use a Mesa Boogie Tremoverb with 2 12" Celestion Vintage's running Svetlana el34's and NOS JAN 12ax7's or JJ 12ax7's.
Also use a Rowland Microcube... VERY loud!
Monster Cable 500's throughout and numerous pedals/modellers etc.
The Taylor usually blows away all a'phile friends who think they can produce the sound of a live guitar on their systems.
Good eye Kijanki... I own a Rowland model 8 and a Roland Microcube, amazingly
I think that the Roland might be the louder of the two..:0)
VOX makes the "Nightrain" head which has a triode mode and a pentode mode - basically cuts the power output from 15 to 7 watts. Sounds a little different in the triode mode, but sounds like a VOX amp either way. You mentioned power. If you aren't gigging you don't want a lot of power. The issue of power in a guitar amp is really the headroom - the point until you start to berak up. Of course there is really no point in having a tube amp unless you want the amp to break up (drive the tube into distortion). All tube amps will be loud. Tube amps also have very distinctive flavors - which makes sense since you are trying to distort the signal. A lot of people mentioned Mesa Boogie - fantastic amps. But you get a different sound from VOX, Fender, Marshall. There are also some nice boutique amps out there. You really need to listen to guitar amps to find what you like. A lot more variation between manufacturer's than what you find in audiophile equipment. The differences are far from subtle. I personally use a low wattage VOX for home practice.