Budda Amp Has Bit the Shed

[LucSulla]

So my old Budda SD 18 has an issue.  I just retubed it, and it sounded great.  The next day, I turned it on, and there is almost no signal.  You have to crank it up to get much of anything.  It sounds like the preamp section is fine, but something is amiss with the power side I think.  The signal you can here sounds fine, but there just isn't much of it. 

I tried rolling back in the old power tubes, and nothing.  Switched V1 with a different tube, and nothing.  Bought a new rectified tube, and nothing.  So, at this point, I'm wondering if the output tranny may be shot. 

[JohnnyB]

1 hour ago, bubs_42 said:

That was the first new JJ I have had that bit the bullet. I really like those tubes in this amp. I stay away from the NOS Rabbit Hole. 

The Trace Elliott Velocette copied the amp topology of the Vox AC15, which was notoriously hard on tubes. I liked the JJs--they sounded good. But I went to NOS because they sounded better and held up much better to the Velocette's hot bias. It also helped that my local NOS dealer was a Russian immigrant who had an enormous selection of vintage US and Euro tubes at near-giveaway prices. I got my GE and Sylvania tubes for $5 to $10 ea. A total no-brainer.