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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…