Anyway thanks again for sharing your experience, expertise and knowledge, it has been invaluable. I intend to build a blackface Princeton (or more accurately a Deluxe Reverb vibrato channel, less the vibrato, 4 dual triodes required) next using subminiature valves in the preamp and 2 or maybe 4 x 6aQ5 miniature 6V6 analogues, transformers permitting. I hope you find some of this of interest. Incidentally your website is one of 2 that I frequently consult for information. The other is Rod Elliott's Elliott Sound Products. He is an Australian sound engineer who prefers solid state, but has a very well structured analysis of all things valve amp related, some of it quite critical of Fender and Marshall and with many suggestions for improvements of some recurring design flaws. Link below: http://sound.whsites.net/index2.html Very best regards, sincerely, John