Transistors nearly obliterated the tube home audio market in the 1970s, but audiophiles and guitar players never gave up on tubes.

Drouin, 72, meticulously hand-builds and repairs amplifiers from his home garage for tube amp devotees around the country.

To the audiophile's eye some tube amplifiers are art of the highest sort.

So you’ve decided that you’d like to pick up a headphone amplifier. Like many things in the world of audio, deciding which to buy can be a rabbit hole of different designs, types, and price ...

Vacuum tube amps look cool but intimidating. However, they can be a desktop audio upgrade for anybody, so long as you know what you're getting into.

Tube home theater With these pre-amplifier and power amplifier circuits you can scale your design to a complete home theater system with 5.1 sound.

Figure 1 Hybrid tube/FET audio amp with active feedback Since the op-amp output is at or near common potential, the vacuum tube pentode input stage is cathode-biased via R5 in the normal fashion.

NAMM 2025: Boss has launched the Waza Tube Amp Expander Core, a “streamlined” and more compact version of its feature-packed reactive load box that promises “world-class recorded tones with ...

IN THE AGE OFwireless speakers and Bluetooth streaming, vacuum-tube amplifiers may seem antiquated, but you don’t have to be an audio nerd to appreciate their appeal. Designed to power ...

Having scored a home run with its UAFX amp modeller pedals, Universal Audio has taken the exact same algorithms from three of its vintage tube amp-inspired stompboxes and released them in as ...

From beyond the Iron Curtain? A new generation of Polish high-end audio manufacturers are creating some incredible new amplifiers. The Fezz Audio Evolution Series has arrived in North America.