A year ago today we received our first shipment of the Limited Edition Elekit TU-8300R 300B Single Ended Tube Amp Kit and were nothing short of impressed. By February we had decided to have one…
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Different Types of Amp Bias Just like the idle of your car may need adjusting when a major change is done to the engine, new power tubes need their idle (the “bias”) adjusted to make…
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A re-post from Wall of Sound (review by Tim Smith) When Jon Esau of www.thetubestore.com offered a set of five EL34-type tubes for review (JJ KT77; JJ EL34 II; Svetlana EL34; Genalex Gold Lion KT77 and…
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Human imagination and ingenuity never ceases to amaze. An incredible display of engineering and artistry went into this xylophone created by Kenjiro Matsuo of Invisible Designs Lab and wood engineer Mitsuo Tsuda for the Touch…
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For many music enthusiasts, purchasing music on vinyl provides an experience that can’t be matched by CDs or digital downloads. A vinyl lover will go to a record store, flip through albums by alphabetical order…
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What are those chills that run down your spine when you hear that one great tune? Read all about the power of skin orgasms in this article by David Robson. “A 1991 study of professional…
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Atma-Sphere is world renown for fantastic their OTL amplifiers. In this video they use stop-motion animation to provide us with a look into how the award-winning Atma-Sphere M-60 power tube amp is hand assembled. If…
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The arguments for high power vs low power Single-Ended tube audio amplifiers have been made for decades and there are many. It seems both have their strengths and compromises. But audiophiles often ask if there…
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…I.E. How to Meet Non-Audiophiles and Manage to Survive A re-post from Lucio Cadeddu of TNT-Audio.com The simple fact you are staring at the monitor and reading this article means that either you are an audiophile…
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The Lego Movie took the world by storm hitting over $400 Million in global box office receipts. Emmett appealed to the masses with his double-decker couch, overpriced coffee and his unusual collection of co-stars. To…
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