please help with tube amp thks

the 300b does play, but you will need an efficient speaker 90dB minimum. Great for folk, jazz, bluegrass, vocal, not for rock in most cases.

ok then,thks Swampwalker,rock is my main listen.female vocals and some easy stuff.what is a good tube amp for this???? thks

2Big, I think Swampwalker was being gentle with you. You really have to be careful with matching speakers with a 300B. If you end up with 7 watts of heaven per channel, it will sound thin and lame if you have 90db speakers and a pair of passive subs. However, powered subs run off line level between the amp and pre-amp will reduce the strain to the amp and give it more reserves.

Keep in mind that even if you listen quietly, dynamic peaks will drain an amp quickly and it will usually respond with distortion or flat sound for the next couple of notes.....

Take Sbank's advice, start with an EL34 based amp like a Jolida or sonic frontiers.

If you what something to really rock, I would not go 300b, for sure. Active subs help if you roll off the lows bepfre the amp, as Elevick says, but still you would need very efficient speakers to get what you want with 300b amps (unless you go with some of the higher powered very expensive amps like the VAC that use more than 1 300b per channel). If you are just starting out you might try one of the less expensive Chinese amps like the Jolida or Prima Luna.

the mr10 is one of audio's great tube amps.....the benefits of tubes, but also powerful enough to work with a wide variety of great loudspeakers(old and new).