It’s All In Your Head
When someone tells you “It’s all in your head” they are absolutely correct. Every song we ever heard and every note we ever played is stored in our complex memory banks. The brain controls every…
7 Ways To Prolong Your Tube’s Lifespan
Here’s an excellent post we thought you might like from producer, engineer, and musician, Kieran Whitehouse. If you’re anything like me then you have your guitars hung up on the wall at home, in pride of…
Review – JJ ECC803-S Tube
This JJ ECC803-S / 12AX7 vacuum tube offering has huge plates in its triode sections giving it a real punch with lots of gain. The larger plates combined with crimped construction may contribute to the…
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…
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…
Vacuum Tubes In Fender Brown, Blonde, Blackface and Silverface 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…
