I'm definitely not getting distortion, which again I thought would happen with an impedance mismatch. I know the input transformer is correct and I can measure it accordingly and the compression seems kicking in where I would expect it, so I know it's on the output side, but I could seem to find anything wrong prior to the output transformer. I know that at the output connections on the board the signal was quite low, which is when I tried the transformer 1:3, which seemed to work and sound like I hoped it would. At this point it's in the rack. If a problem does develop I will revisit this issue. But as I said, it's working great so I'm just going to roll with the transformer being wired backwards.
Thanks!
Paul