Thanks to all for the warm welcome, pretty active site here, looking forward to the interaction.
Well I did a total tear-down of the amp, recapped it, redid the wiring, replaced the speaker terminals and RCA jacks with higher quality ones, replace the mains filter with a better one and implemented diverse revisions mentioned in the service manual.
There’s really no such thing as a favorite tube for me in the realm of guitar-amps, since the tonal colorations that come with various tube-types is the toolbox for creating the sound/tone one needs for the job at hand (rock, metal, blues, jazz) and so on. Some of the typical used are the 6L6, EL34, EL84, KT88 in the power-amp section, amongst others.
Carverfest 275? Is that the Carver Crimson 275? Wouldn’t mind having that one in the inventory. Unfortunately the last tube amp (Hi-Fi) I had was “The Fisher” KX-100 back in the eighties
Well I got a Peavey Wolfgang Standard, an Ibanez rga321f spb prestige, a Epiphone Elitist 61SG, a custom build Warmoth/USACG Strat-style, a customized Epi Les Paul standard, an Aria Pro II ZZ Deluxe and a Yamaha AES 620