Most of the work that [Ron] has done in the past with vacuum tubes and solid state electronics has been repair. At 59 years old, he finally put together his own stereo tube amplifier and we have to ...

Amp Genie is an automatic home audio receiver controller that starts home audio systems the moment any audio source is played ...

Audio guru Steve Williams sent a link to Pete Millett's audio website. Millett designed the HA-1 and HA-2 vacuum tube headphone amps a while back. He describes himself as: “A lifetime electronics geek ...

Last year, Gear Patrol contributing staff writer Eric Adams reviewed the Monoprice Stereo Hybrid Tube Amp that comes bundled two 50-watt speakers and 10-foot cables. His conclusion: “I had to keep ...

Having built a number of vacuum tube output transformer-less (OTL) amplifiers in recent years, it seemed as though it might be a good idea to try combining older with newer technology and using both ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

AuricSound has launched a new vacuum tube amplifier via Kickstarter this month in the form of the AuricSound A7 which has been created to provide a warm and rich sound. The vacuum tube amplifier is ...

So you’ve made the decision to buy an external headphone amplifier for your desktop setup. Awesome. It’s an easy way to make your nice pair of wired headphones sound better (because your computer’s ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Fig 1. This basic source-follower circuit is the kind of amplifier you would find in an electric bass guitar amplifier. R6 provides the feedback. On the other hand, low-distortion applications require ...

I bought my first tube amp last year, after playing guitar for about 25 years. Before then I’d been completely reliant on solid-state amps and digital models. It was a revelation. And then a few weeks ...