Drop unveiled a new innovation in the form of the xDuoo TA-84 OTL Tube Amp/DAC, the first all-tube Output Transformerless (OTL) amplifier introduced by Drop. A company known…

I’ll never forget the first time I saw the Golden Tube SE-40 amplifier. (This is not a love story, but a little intrigue never hurts.) It sounded incredible,…

The Deftones guitarist was an early champion of amp modelers, but has re-embraced a more hybrid, amp-dependent setup …

Most audio tube amps we see use common tubes – usually a 12AX7 for the preamp and one of the more common power tubes such as an EL34.[Daniel],…

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a…

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…

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

A conventional tube amplifier has a circuit whose fundamentals were well in place around a hundred years ago, so there are few surprises to be found in building…

One of the most respected names in pedal designs wrestles with the threat of digital disruption and says stompbox brands need to move with the times …