Oh Myles, why is it necessary to always have a load connected to a tube amp, when it's perfectly safe to powerup a transistor amp with no load?
Also, if memory serves, tubes need a transformer on the output for impedence matching, where transistor amp have no need of this. Why is that?
They didn't teach us tubes in school. Tube do need a load, i.e., transformer in most cases.
Transistors can be direct coupled to capacitor coupled.
This is all covered in detail in my Tube Primer section II. Hey Myles, do you like the Monteleone pics? I think this one is a "Radio Flyer", going for a paultry 15 grand. If this was 1999 all over again, I'd actually consider it!