Thanks everyone for your answers. I guess I can see some of the reasons why tube amps tend to be low power. I am going to try Jurb's suggestion and check out Audiokarma. I have found a battery operated headphone tube amp that uses tiny tubes that also looks interesting. What I need to do is find someone local to me that has a tube amp in the 8 to 16 watt range and listen to it. Then hook my Pioneer amp to their speakers and see if I can hear a difference. Tubes can look cool, especially the Magic Eye tubes. But if I want to use one of them then I need to figure out a use for it in any tube amp I build. My old Pioneer amp doesn't need to look cool but if I build something it had better look cool to me. Cheers, Eric
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