Any other Joe Rosen fans?

[JohnVF]

Joe:
I just bought a Musical Paradise tube amp for $200, called an MP-301.
It's a single-ended 6V6/6L6 amp, well made, reliable (one friend has been running his for about a year now, no hiccups or worries), and conservatively designed.
It eats up your entire $200 budget, and its only 6W/ch. on a good day.
But its a heck of a 6 Watts, plenty for a dorm or apartment, and it SMOKED an ARC CA-50 in perfect operating condition by direct comparison!
HAH!
It isn't speaker fussy, it has tight bass, its dead quiet!
It uses $10 tubes, and sounds ACE with them!

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That's a LOT of opinion crammed into one post. Impressive.

Did this grate on people after awhile? I'm less intrigued after the 2nd post I've read than I was with the first. Its certainly entertaining.

 

[FloriduhBoy]

Wait, what? 6V6/6L6?!

It will run 6L6 (6P3P), KT66, 5881, EL34, KT77, KT88 and 6550.

MP-301 MK3 Deluxe Mini Tube Amplifier with Headphone Output

 

[FloriduhBoy]

That's a LOT of opinion crammed into one post. Impressive.

Did this grate on people after awhile? I'm less intrigued after the 2nd post I've read than I was with the first. Its certainly entertaining.

I always thought he was pure entertainment, but many took his tube lore as gospel.

 

[mhardy6647]

It will run 6L6 (6P3P), KT66, 5881, EL34, KT77, KT88 and 6550.

MP-301 MK3 Deluxe Mini Tube Amplifier with Headphone Output

All of which are related, and...
None of which is a 6V6
'twas @Mortsnets suggested it could run also 6V6, but maybe a typo(?).

 

[airdronian]

All of which are related, and...
None of which is a 6V6
'twas @Mortsnets suggested it could run also 6V6, but maybe a typo(?).

I think that was the original version with 6v6. It's now a Mk. 3 version. The MSRP has more than doubled compared with what the post says.

 

[mhardy6647]

ahhh, I see.

 

[Mortsnets]

Yeah, Joe mixed up the original and the mk2 in the quote I think.
Original: 6v6
Mk2: 6L6 (6P3P), KT66, 5881 and EL34
Mk3: 6L6 (6P3P), KT66, 5881, EL34, KT77, KT88 and 6550