When Elekit, supplier of high-end kits to audiophiles of taste and style, decided to sell a ready made valve-amp, it turned to Japanese designer Koichi Futatsumata. The result is this beautifully ...

Los Angeles, Feb 9 (PTI) Scientists have looked at the science of valve amps to explain why their rich, warm sound is more pleasant to the ears of so many rock musicians than cheaper transistors. For ...

Just as with the regular Lacquered Tweed version of the Pro Junior IV, the Pro Junior IV SE is a 15-watt valve combo with a 10-inch speaker, 2x 12AX7 preamp valves, and a pair of EL84 valves in the ...

Following the success of his first Kickstarter campaign, New Zealand's Martin Young of IMS Electronics has returned to the crowdfunding platform with an updated hybrid valve/tube amp he's calling the ...

Despite the oldest solid state audio circuitry now qualifying for a pension and a bus pass where this is being written, the thermionic tube retains a foothold in the world of audio — cherished by ...

A Taiwanese company has given the iPod a retro spin with a docking station that features an elegant 1940s-style valve amplifier. It’s an unusual marriage of digital high-tech and classic analogue ...

Headphone amps are usually pretty simple things. You get an input or two on the back, a headphone output on the front, and a volume knob. That’s all you really need, particularly if you’re not looking ...

Issue 332 of Guitarist - on sale 03 August - features the second instalment of Mick's longterm test of Apple Logic Pro 9, the company's flagship recording package. It does a lot more than straight ...

There are few greater follies in the world of electronics than that of an electronic engineering student who has just discovered the world of hi-fi audio. I was once that electronic engineering ...