Viva Tubes in Easthampton is a big supplier of new and vintage vacuum tubes There are hundreds of brands and models, he said. That includes some with colorful names like the German brand Telefunken .

In addition to the rare 300B, there exist a great number of tube types. Electric-guitar amps, for example, routinely use vacuum tubes because their warm, engaging sonic signature can’t be ...

Whitener, a 69-year-old self-described inventor, vintage hi-fi collector, and Led Zeppelin fanatic, bought and revived AT&T’s shuttered vacuum tube business in 1995.

Making vacuum tubes with all the proper equipment — glassblower’s lathe, ... Posted in classic hacks Tagged amplifier, cathode, grid, plate, retro, triode, tungsten, vacuum tube, vintage.

Unlike some tube-based synths, Mars doesn't rely on vacuum tubes to generate sound. Instead, it's a hybrid instrument that ...

The vintage hi-fi market has never been more active, with some historic components—namely vacuum-tube amplifiers and horn-loaded loudspeakers—now commanding exponential multiples of their ...

A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding a vacuum (an area from which all gases have been removed). What makes it interesting is that when electrical contacts are put on the ends, you ...

Unlike some tube-based synths, Mars doesn't rely on vacuum tubes to generate sound. Instead, it's a hybrid instrument that features digital oscillators based on the R-2R TDA 1387, a vintage digital-to ...