Joe Bonamassa on how to choose the right amp for a gig
Joe Bonamassa’s “amp shanty” is the stuff of legend – and many a YouTube video tour. You will no doubt be familiar with some of his heavy hitters,…
Onix Melody SP3 Tube Integrated Amplifier Review
There are two adjustment dials and three probe leads. Biasing adjustments for tube amplifiers regulates a negative voltage across the output tubes to optimize their performance. Typically, biasing…
Best tube amps 2025: The finest tube-driven heads, combos, and lunchbox amps on the market
Here’s how it works. For all the technological advancements we’ve seen in guitar amplification, the tube amp remains, for many guitarists, the platonic ideal. Of course, no one…
Q Acoustics 3020c Review: Proper British Speakers That Sound Brilliant with a Warm Amp — No Need to Raid Your Sock Drawer for Spare Cash
While Munich descended further into a cosplay convention for audiophile aristocrats, Q Acoustics showed up like Blackadder at a royal banquet—armed with wit, purpose, and a blunt object…
Marantz Launches AV 20 & AMP 20: New Home Theater Separates
Serving as the perfect match for the AV 20 preamp/processor, Marantz’s new AMP 20 is a 12-channel power amplifier designed to deliver clean, robust power—up to 200 watts…
Best of High End Munich 2025 audio show: our top 5 products, from headphones to a tube amp portable CD player
We’ve scoured the whole show floor – and its many, many side rooms – for the most interesting new releases that are the type of products TechRadar usually…
“The Amp That I Played Onstage Since the Day I Got It”: Chris Stapleton’s Signature Fender Princeton Amp Is 10% Off Right Now
You may have seen me write elsewhere that the Fender Princeton is, in my opinion, the best tube amp overall. It’s just the right size, it’s got the…
Victory Amps has reimagined Pete Honore’s Deputy tube amp as a super-portable lunchbox head
If you’re like Danish Pete and looking for a compact single-channel head for ’60s British-style cleans and overdriven ’70s rock tones, you’ll find all that and more inside…
Nail the sound of a holy grail tube amp with a pedal you made yourself
Megabucks tube amp tones beloved by the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Carlos Santana in a stompbox you assemble yourself? No wonder the first batch…
This Affordable Amplifier Is the Perfect Desktop Upgrade for Serious Audiophiles
The desk-friendly tube amplifier can drive a wide variety of headphones. Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn…