Gillento: I'd like to resurrect this thread to enquire as to your experiences with the Mywatt 200, please?
I really fancy one.....
Very high Quality Amp, with a no-nonsense-Design. No fancy Vintage Stuff in it, but modern high Quality Parts and some contemporary updates added to the original circuit (but NOT in the signal path). All Handwired and soldered on Turrets, BUT on thick high end PC Boards. No routing-wires on the board but etched routes.
All switches, Pots, Tubes and Jacks mount to the chassis and outsorced from the board.
Original Circuit but added features: Every Powertube can be biased individually. No matched sets needed. Transformer Balanced DI out - soldered parallel to the output Transformer. (Captured signal is Post Power Tubes) - The DI out ist stepless adjustable.
The Power Transformer is toroidial, the output Transformer laminated steel. Chassis Aluminium. Cabinet Poplar Plywood.
All Handmade in Germany - uses JJ Tubes.
As I remember, the 200 Head weighs about 20kg, and the 400 something like 28.
The Sound is just like an original Hiwatt. Oldschool interacting Pots - Needs skilled hands. Beautiful ringing Treble with glassy overtones and Huge and Accurate Bass. Can get Nasty but totally different to a roaring old SVT. IMHO Beats the **** out of every new made Orange.