narad
Progressive metal and politics
For some reason I think that the EL34 version was EL34 only.. I remember it had blue LEDs instead of Red (power switch and backlighting).
I don't know why they would do that. I'm not 100% certain either because I never played an EL34 amp I liked, so when I bought my E670, I specifically ordered the 6L6 version which 100% for sure has a switch to swap to EL34s. I was putting tubes in it today and staring right at it.
My first one was the 6L6 model, but it was old-ish when I got it and I sold it in like 2009. My second one I got in 2014 but it looked pretty old, too. Switching the tubes was something people talked a lot about at that time, so I think it would have been mentioned more if there was one and I would have eventually checked it out when I had it. That they had the switches as early as 2011 is definitely a surprise -- when Nick mentioned it I thought maybe he was alluding to a fairly recent refresh. They refreshed the tolex and some other minor things aesthetically at some point, maybe the two are correlated.