Faith and begorrah! a "can you please ID this tube amp?" post - from me!?

mhardy6647

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Not sure I've mentioned this here, but our son (the mathematician) has, the past year, married his long-time girlfriend, bought a house, and morphed into a DIY woodworker with a vengeance. He's good at it, too (the woodworking, that is). He seems to watch quite a few woodworking videos. Overnight, he sent me a link to a video and asked if he was seeing a vacuum tube amplifier in the background. He sure does seem to be -- the problem is: I don't recognize it?!

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Here's the whole video:


So, hat in hand, I am making one of those posts: can any of you ID the amplifier? Looks like a PP EL34 (or maybe KTxx) amplifier. I am thinking vintage, as opposed to new, and Japanese (but I'm not certainly not certain, in either case). Kind of reminds me of 1960s Japanese tube amps (with which I am not terribly familiar). It looks too small -- and maybe even too bland -- to be a Luxman, but I know Matsushita (e.g.) had some amps sort of like this one (?). Similarly, it's ever so vaguely reminiscent of a Dynaco ST-70, but it's not an ST-70.

Any thoughts or insight are, as always greatly appreciated & gratefully received.
Thanks!
 
I haven’t bothered to check, but in the YouTube video you can pose the question and usually the original poster will answer or someone else will chime in (well maybe not someone else in a wood video).
 
I haven’t bothered to check, but in the YouTube video you can pose the question and usually the original poster will answer or someone else will chime in (well maybe not someone else in a wood video).
Someone did suggest that to me on a local listserv here in the northeastern boondocks -- I have in fact done so as a comment. There are over 900 comments to that video, so signal to noise may not be in my favor. :o
 
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