Missing Vacuum Tube Pins, Uncovering The Mystery
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…
Not Your Grandfather’s Smartphone – Technology Advances
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,…
How It’s Made – Omnidirectional Speakers
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…
One Company Proving The Finest Things Are Timeless
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…
You might just be an audiophile…
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…
The Art of Listening – Documentary Film
The Art of Listening – Documentary Film Have you ever considered the many arts that go into the music we play and listen to? There are more stages and craftsmanship required than we often think…
Tone, Tone, Tone
Richard Gabriel has kindly allowed us to republish this article – thetubestore.com. Richard P. Gabriel In 1999, Spencer Reiss, one of the senior editors for Wired magazine, asked me to write a short essay having…
What Tubes Do In Most Fender Brown, Blonde, Blackface and Silverface Tube Amps
Replacement Tube Packages are available for Fender tube amps. By Eric Barbour – Former Vacuum Tube Valley senior editor The first preamp tube (or the first 2 tubes, in 2 channel amps) provide the first…
Audiophile Review – 6L6 Type Vacuum Tube Shootout
A re-post from Wall of Sound (review by Tim Smith) Shortly after my EL34 tube review on Wall of Sound, Jon Esau of www.thetubestore.com asked if I might be interested in reviewing a bunch of…
That Time McIntosh Saved the Grateful Dead
Here is a story that can be appreciated by both musicians and audiophiles alike. In 1973 the Grateful Dead found themselves in an unusual situation, although one many musicians would love to be in. When…
