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Update: The rectifier tube came in last night and everything fired up fine and everything appears to be working correctly! It looks like my ignorance didn't cause any permanent damage. Moral of the story: read the manual first if you don't know what you're doing. This amp is a BEAST, what a...

Besides destroying two power tubes, is there any chance I damaged the amp?

Jesus Christ, you're right! I feel like a totally idiot! When I got the amp it literally had 5 power tubes in it and it seemed to be working. So when I switched out the tubes I thought it also needed 5 power tubes. How would it be able to work at all without a rectifier tube?! This is my first...

Help! I just bought a lightly used Mark V combo and I recently started to notice a decreased performance in the gain saturation and the top end started to sound dry. I read that this was likely a power tube issue so I tried switching around the power tubes. The performance started to get better...