Hello all,
New to the forum, this is my first post.
Hoping to get some advice/direction about my new '69 Sunn Sonaro tube bass head. Long have I coveted a Sunn bass head, since playing on a minty Sonaro with matching 15" JBL cab back when I was in high school (and the amp was vintage then!)... So after years of Fender, GK, Mesa Boogie, and Ampeg heads I finally landed a Sonaro off Craig's List - came with a 215SH scoop-horn cabinet too!
My question is - what is the proper rectifier tube for this amp? Mine has a tube complement in it now that I can't seem to match up with any searches of schematics.
1 - 5U4G rectifier, 2 - 6550 power, 1 - 7199, 1 - 12ax7wa
I dated the amp by the transformer codes, so it could conceivably be any time after 1969 - maybe '70 or '71. The 6550's are mid-'70s tung sols, and the rectifier is a '90s SED Svetlana.
So, what gives with the 5u4g? I thought Sonaro's had GZ34 rectifiers? Any advice would be appreciated.