There’s a mystique in audiophile circles about tube amplifiers. They can have a very nice sound which is attributed to their even-harmonic distortion, but they are often portrayed as requiring rare ...

To continue our coverage of AXPONA (you did read part one, didn’t you?), we will look at some of the amplifiers, preamplifiers, DACs, and other assorted electronics sitting between the source and the ...

What Is a Tube Amplifier? Tube amps are made using vacuum tubes, which were invented in 1925. Using a glass bulb akin to a light bulb, tube amps take a weak signal and amplify it several times through ...

This one is a superior class AB push-pull configuration tube amplifier project delivering 80 Watt RMS per channel. Four 6550 high power tetrode vacuum tubes in triode mode and class AB2 push-pull ...

A conventional tube amplifier has a circuit whose fundamentals were well in place around a hundred years ago, so there are few surprises to be found in building one today. Nevertheless, building one ...

Blackstar Amplification might be based out of Northampton, England, but for its latest release, the guitar amp specialist’s R&D team have been looking across the pond to vintage US combos for ...

NAMM 2025: Boss has launched the Waza Tube Amp Expander Core, a “streamlined” and more compact version of its feature-packed reactive load box that promises “world-class recorded tones with no ...

Can a stripped down Linear Tube Audio MZ3 deliver the same experience for only $2,100? The LTA Velo makes it debut this weekend at CAF 2023. One of my favorite pieces of hi-fi gear in the entire world ...

NAMM 2025: Boss has launched the Waza Tube Amp Expander Core, a “streamlined” and more compact version of its feature-packed reactive load box that promises “world-class recorded tones with no ...