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Tube rolling is one of the pleasures of tube amp ownership. Most of us have experienced a noticeable change in sound quality when changing tubes. Although these changes are almost always attributed to the tube alone, it’s not that simple. Actually, it’s not the just tube— The difference you hear is tube/amp interaction. A certain tube only sounds a certain way …
Turning your living room into a listening room… one especially designed for tube amplifiers. The two main components determining room acoustics are absorption and reflection. Auditoriums and concert halls on one hand are intentionally designed to have reflective surfaces that make the music ‘come alive’ and spread over the audience. They are reverberant spaces; spaces were the sound bounces around many times …
AEA was the first to break the 1000 watt per channel barrier: One of the most important requirements for high quality sound reproduction is plenty of “head room” in the power amp. All amplifiers increase their distortion as the output level increases. This holds true in preamps as well as power amps, but is especially noticeable in power amps. Because to the …
Vacuum Tube Life Expectancy: Tubes do wear out, and eventually need replacement. However, new tubes should last between 6 and 10 thousand hours. That’s 3 to 6 years at 4 or 5 hours playing time every day! If you only average 2 or 3 hours a day, they should last up to 10 years. This goes for all types of …
I won’t start an argument by saying that tube amplifiers are better than solid state, or that tubes possess some kind of “Magic.” Having designed solid state amps to directly compete with the very best tube types, I will begin by stating that solid state technology does have certain advantages over tube technology. However, most of these advantages involve cost, not audio quality. …
Going beyond the simple “re-cap”