Welcome back to Tone Priest, where I take a perfectly good Simplified Soldano SLO “Nakid” clone and keep fixing it until it’s broken. In this video I’m doing some quality-of-life upgrades and a couple “let’s see what happens” experiments after discovering my plate voltage was screaming hot—around 460+ volts. That’s way past what a traditional 6V6 datasheet wants to see (350V max), so I talk through why tube suffixes matter (5881 WXT vs vintage-style 5881), and I try a set of JJ 6V6S tubes because they’re built more like a small 6L6 and are rated for higher voltage. Before I even swap tubes, I add two protection parts that I think are basically no-brainers: a CL80 NTC thermistor to gentlify the inrush current (especially with diode rectification and big filter caps), and an MOV across hot/neutral on the switched side of the power switch to clamp nasty voltage spikes. Then I bias up the JJ 6V6S (about 464V on the plates, ~19.6mA, roughly 65%) and do some listening—less “balls” than the 5881s, but still ripping. And because I can’t leave well enough alone, I also wire the unused V1 triode in parallel (with separate grid stoppers, lowered to 47k) to drop noise and change the feel a bit. Nothing exploded, no sparks, no smoke—so I’m calling it a win.