Shredding Light on the Future of Metal
This young woman is amazing and taking the male dominated music we call metal by storm! I can’t deny that I love metal in all of its various forms so when I stumbled upon these…
Shop By Amp – It’s That Easy!
Are you looking to replace the vacuum tubes in your amplifier and need guidance selecting just the right set for your needs? With our Shop by Amp Section simply: Locate your amp – Choose the…
What The Tubes Do In Most Marshall Tube Amps
By Eric Barbour – Former Vacuum Tube Valley senior editor This article does not include more recent “Master Volume” and JCM models. The first preamp tube (or the first 2 tubes, in 2 channel amps)…
Back To The Future for Vacuum Tube Technology
You may call it a valve, electron valve, electron tube, vacuum tube or simply a tube but we all love them just the same. We use them in our home audio and guitar amplifiers for…
Guitar Flamethrower – Tone On Fire
You know you want one … George Miller pulled out all the stops when it came to Mad Max: Furry Road. In a movie world filled with CGI it is quite hard to believe how…
What Tubes Do In Most Early Fender Tweed Amps
Replacement Tube Packages are available for Early Fender Tweed tube amps. By Eric Barbour – Former Vacuum Tube Valley senior editor The first preamp tube (or the first 2 tubes, in 2 channel amps) provides…
A Non-Audiophile Investigates an Audio Show
Whether you are an audiophile or just know one, you will agree audiophiles are a special breed. They eat, sleep and breath the quest for the ultimate tone. It is a passion and obsession that…
Fashion Week – Runway Worthy Headphones
It’s fashion week in Milan where everything from the beautiful to the bazaar will be walking the runways. For our audiophiles and musicians I thought we could create our own runway celebrating the wearable wonders…
Vinyl Records – The Appeal of Record Collecting
A re-post from RareRecords.net Despite the predictions of many just a few short years ago, vinyl records are still selling well in the twenty-first century. This would have surprised a lot of people in the…
Triode Roundup: Seven “Common Man” 300B Tubes Compared
A re-post from Wall of Sound, Comparison Review by Noam Bronstein I seem to chronically underestimate a lot of things. Notably to WoS readers, when I say something will be posted “by the end of…
