OK.
Those Valve Arts are supposed to be the ones to get as far as modern day tubes. There aren't many options, outside of NOS KT66.
Keep us up to date.
Good Luck
It works! It sounds!
Though cathode current is like 10 times lower it should, right now (maximum 4.6mA!). Is it possible to be because I connected a 4 ohm speaker to the 8 ohm output?
I'll try tomorrow with the 8 ohm load. I connected the 4 ohm speaker because that would drop the energy efficiency, so it doesn't sound too loud for 11PM. And also because I didn't wanna risk my scumback speakers if something was wrong.
If tomorrow, with a matched load, the cathode current is still that low, should I use a bigger bias pot? (I'm using a 25K bias pot).
The small current cathode must be happening too because I'm using a lightbulb current limiter, that drops B+ Voltage from 400 to about 300 right now. I'm still using the lightbulb limiter because, though everything seems OK, I've realized I haven't got slow blow fuses but fast ones.