Hi,

Here in Germany there is a kit maker called Peter Linnemann who sells Plexi kits on eBay for 500 Euro - My pal heard my Ceriatone and was impressed, so he bought a kit from Peter Linnemann with Welter trannies (I know this is not comparable - but he thought all Plexis are the same)- his arrived and we tried the 2 next to each other - his was a lot lighter in weight and I was not impressed with the rear panal layout or the wiring (I think there was a wiring issue too, but that could to do with my pal as he wired a lot of it himself). Yet I was immediately impressed how aggressive his amp was when we switched it on. The volume jumps from 1 to loud and it was dirty straight away - I mean really dirty, which could surely not be main tube break-up... we do not think he has a cascade mod and here is no master volume. I do see some Plexi re-issues on youtube which are dirty at low level.

My Ceriatone 1987 starts to break up at 3 - which is loud! At 4 it is probably almost at its loudest but this is already silly loud. My pal thinks he has a bright cap on his volume knob - can any one tell me if that is all it takes?

ps My Ceriatone 1987 sounded better at louder volumes - I think my pal needs to check out his wiring! Ha!

Cheers Brett