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I played mine at like 5 once and thought my ears were gonna bleed. Can't imagine being in the room with this thing cranked. Sounds great from my couch though!

So, I currently own 3 of these guys, I wanted a second to have a small stereo rig… and then found a deal too good to pass up for a head version with a matching 1x12 cab. The beauty of this little guy is that it is handwired and fairly easy to mod or tweek. It’s loosely based on a “Champ” type circuit with mods. Although it is handwired however, for the price of these it’s no surprised that many of the components are cheap and pretty much all of the resistors in the thing are metal oxides. Great for reliability, but some feel they are a bit sterile sounding where the audio signal passes through. The other nice feature is that they come with an OT that has 4/8/16 Ω taps. As far as getting the most out of it, I’d check to see if it has the factory tubes and consider replacing or upgrading. The other nice thing is on a cathode biased amp, you can easily swap tubes. There are also mods that can be down such as putting a switch that swaps bias resistor values so you can run a 5881 or EL34 tube instead of the the 6v6. I was thinking of making a video of that mod. Next would be using an extension cab. 1x12 or 2x10 is great with low efficiency speakers. Try different speakers either way. I’ll have an Alnico in one of mine and a ceramic in the other and run them in stereo and that’s a great low volume stereo rig. I’m also going to do a video with a comparison between the stock amp and one where I upgrade and maybe swap some resistors and tone stack caps to hopefully breath some more vintage tone mojo into it. Using an eq pedal to cut some of the boxiness and sweeten up the top end goes a long way. I’d say except for the component replacement or mods, the rest are simple things you can do to get more out of a pretty decent little amp even in stock form. They are built fairly well and I can imagine them to be very reliable and not hard or expensive to do repairs.

Yeah that sounds nice, I need to try that, any other thoughts on trying to get the most out of the VHT Special 6 ? Thanks

My buddy has a 535Q and his issue is that it turns on, but when he engages it, theres no sound. Do you think this is due to a faulty switch or something else? He was trying to secure it to his pedal board and was putting pressure on it to make the velcro stick and the thinks thats what caused the issue. Any help or tips would be appreciated.