This Tiny Hi-Fi Gadget Is a Portable Tube Amp for Your iPhone

The tiny hi-fi component plugs into your device and effectively replaces its built-in DAC/amp (which typically isn’t very good), delivering a superior audio signal to your wired …

“Far more versatile than its tube counterpart”: Fender Tone Master ’59 Bassman review

Fender attempts the incredible feat of replicating the historic Bassman with a digital heart in its latest addition to the Tone Master series …

Did a Heritage Japanese Hi-Fi Brand Make the Perfect Entry-Level Amp?

Revered Japanese audio manufacturer Rotel’s affordable, all-analog A8 feels like a throwback to traditional hi-fi systems of the past.

These luxury headphones come with their own vacuum tube and dual-mono amp

Headphone brand Écoute has launched a pair of headphones with a vacuum tube and amplification built-in. The headphones are £652 / $799 / AU$1,303.

These luxe wireless headphones stick a tube-amp hi-fi on your head, and offer really hardcore Hi-Res Audio support

The idea of putting a tube in a pair of headphones does tend to bring mental images of massive lightbulb-sized tubes to mind, but Kor …

Musical Fidelity’s integrated amp strives for a sweet, powerful sound thanks to its “reference-level” tech

The Nu-Vista 600.2 is an analogue integrated amplifier that packs in updated tech for “huge power and sonic transparency”.

Headphones with a built-in vacuum tube amp for vinyl-like sound!? They’re real, and they look super cool

There are a couple of reasons I suspect it’s taken this long to see a vacuum tube in a pair of headphones. Tubes are hungry beasts, with higher…

“While sound quality was once something that held modelers back, it is now a big reason to buy”: Five reasons you’re better off with an amp modeler than a tube amp

An amp modeler is a digital device that replicates the tones of an amplifier through a process called modeling. Modeling involves designing a sound digitally from scratch to…

Amp guru Dave Friedman on why he’s not ready to hop off the tube train

The amp guru looks back on a career of modding Marshalls, building rigs for Eddie Van Halen, and developing his most simple product ever – and looks forward…

Marshall unveils factory modded takes on the 1959 Plexi and JCM800 –tipping its cap to the amp wizards of rock’s golden era

Marshall has announced the arrival of its first commercially available factory-modded tube amps, the 1959 Modified and JCM800 Modified. We knew some form of modified amp was on…