I don't believe that the VT100 is an all tube amp. You need to get into the AC30/15 line of Vox to get that, or the smaller all tube Vox amps. They even have an AC50 tube amp. The VT100 is what they call a "hybrid", meaning it has at least one tube and a solid state balance of the amp. You do not have a tube preamp stage and a tube power amp stage, separately, it has one tube that does the tube effect. Where the tube is in the signal path I'm not sure on the new models. I think it was moved to the power stage but I'm not sure, but it is not a power tube as such, it is a 12ax7 preamp style tube that is assigned various duties if I'm not mistaken. Power tubes are like 6L6'es and EL84's, etc.

Vox has been working on th "chromies" for years now, improving them and selling a lot of them. They are modelling hybrid amps.s

Does the nickel mining still go on in Sudbury? Remember driving thru there as a kid and the area was devoid of vegetation as a result o the nickel mining operations. Hopefully things have changed and it doesn't look like Mars anymore. Around where I live you can see the relics of the old days of Old King Coal, massive coal slag heap mountains. They are recycling the slag now and retreiving a lot of usable coal out of the slag, and cleaning up some of the areas, but the largest underground coal fire in the world is still burning near here in Centralia, Pa. It will probably never be put out.