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You're welcome. And thanks for all info, especially the bit about the serial number sequences and Hylight's name, that's very interesting under the circumstances. I can't offer anything else now but to try to entertain with speculations and I already shot my bolt on that one... So I'll let it rest. ...

The problem with that argument is that it divides into abstruse parts. If you want to understand the history of that amp you have to take it in context and take it whole, using all the clues you can get. There aren't many of them, so eliminating the few we have is just a way to end the effort. And t...

Even if the front panel did get changed, that serial plate didn't, unless someone went to a lot of trouble to fake it without leaving any sign that they'd done so. I wasn't suggesting that. Understood. I just meant that as you say, it looks like it's not been altered at all, so the back plate likel...

I think it's unlikely that anything got changed since it was made, except a fuse. Its history suggests that it was trusted to do its thing, and it did it. The greatest mystery to me is why someone who cared enough to have it built in some special way later became so unattached to it as to sell it at...

That's all I can do. The owner is old, going deaf (that amp may or may not be a contributor to this, those cabs it drives are in a moderate sized living room), and he doesn't like the upheaval that would be needed to get pics of the insides as well. I used to work on his stuff years ago, but not now...

I got a look at it again, with pictures and measurements. It's not as exiting as I thought it was.. :) (And definitely not as cool as the big kilovolt-anode valve amp linked to above). Being that close to it in the place I worked on other gear ten years ago, I remembered more too. This amp has just ...

I think I found one. I have prepared a long post but I don't think anyone will beleive me, so I'll pass on it and try to convince the owner to let me take lots of pictures and measurements before I post that. For now, I'll say only this (and this alone might convince someone I really saw it): On the...