Halloween is fast approaching and it is time to put the final touches on those costumes. It has been an unusual year full of spooky situations, to say the least. Some suggest Halloween be cancelled.…
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Help! You sent me a tube without any pins!!! It isn’t unusual for us to get calls or emails from customers in regards to mysterious missing vacuum tube pins. The pins appear to be cut…
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Building a Tweed 5E3 Kit from Trinity Amps By John Templeton Introduction I was recently asked by a family member if I could assemble a Tweed amp kit from Trinity Amplifiers. I love old Fender…
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If you have an old-school tube amp without a master volume, then you know the only way to get breakup is by turning up the volume and moving some air. These old amp designs stretch…
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There are times I think that we take for granted the advances in technology that we have seen over the past several decades. The current generations might not be able to appreciate, or even comprehend,…
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Venture to any audio show and you are bound to see an abundance of speaker technology and designs that look more like art than anything. However when it comes right down to it, sound is…
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In the audiophile world tone comes before beauty but occasionally we see equipment that achieves both. Oswalds Mill Audio makes $300,000 speakers that are easy on the ears and the eyes, just not on the…
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The title of Audiophile comes with great responsibility. While some may toss it around loosely to describe anyone with minimal knowledge of music and listening equipment, we like to reserve it for the true aficionado who…
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Tube shields and retainers get zero love in most guitar and audio journals. At some point in time a person thought that they were important and they’ve been used ever since. Why do we have…
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DIY – Is it for you? If you’ve ever had to wait for your tube gear to be repaired, or wondered why techs’ charge so much money? Then you may have asked “Can I do…
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