need beginner amp idea

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Re: need beginner amp idea

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For your budget you could score a mid 60s Kalamazoo Model II. If you put in fresh filters, reference the filaments to the power tube cathode resistor and put bypass caps on the preamp cathode resistors, it's a real screamer. Cool tremolo, too.

The Kalamazoos are cheap, as something like 17,000 Model IIs were made!
Rich Gordon
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