The TU-8300R “Red Amp” Tour
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…
Know Your Bias
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…
Audiophile Review – EL34 Family Tube Comparison
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…
Woodland Melody
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…
Why Vinyl?
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…
The Strange Phenomenon of Musical ‘Skin Orgasms’
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…
What it Takes to Make a Tube Amp
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…
The New King of Single-Ended Tube Audio?
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…
A Survivor’s Guide on Audiophile Behavior in Society
…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…
Everything is Awesome When It Comes On Vinyl
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…
