15watt clean power amp suggestion

[pietro_moog]

hi guys.
a friend of mine wants me to build him a medium power hi gain amp.
he was so impressed by ac4/soldano, even if it's still a prototype.
i have the preamp schematics, i need a clean 15w power amp.
i was thinking something with 6v6s. el84s break up too early i think.
he likes 5 stages preamps. maybe it's too much for a 15w amp?

do you think princeton reverb power amp would go into saturation and
produce a bad tone?

[dchang0]

Bad tone, no, but it's pretty easy to push a PR power section into saturation. That said, in its clean range, it's really clean.

[pietro_moog]

mmm.. i experimented a bit with mine and we decided to go with el84s.
thanks anyway