Tube Love

Tonight I installed a lighted switch into the Magnavox, as well as a fuse holder. It has a 1 amp fuse in it and so far so good, although it''s doing that motorboating thing again unless I pull one of the power tubes. It didn't do it when I had it hooked up as 16 ohms (2 8 ohm speakers in series per channel). Moved the Foreplay and the Mag into my workshop so I can play with it with different speaker configs. I'm not convinced the Magnavox is truly a stereo unit - I saw a post where someone mentioned the they made a version that had one channel for low frequencies and one for high frequencies, like for a TV, in mono. It may explain why it seems muted... but damn if it's mono it sounds gooood! I need to test it with an obviously stereo CD. if it is a mono unit I'll make it into a sweet-sounding guitar amp.