Like most of us during what advertisers like to call “this difficult time,” I was compelled to spend a fair amount of it “working” from home. Truth be told, I hadn’t worked so hard in years. My wife ...

It was with considerable interest last month that I set out to track down where in the world there are still factories making tubes. My research found them in Slovakia, Russia, and China, and it’s ...

What Is a Tube Amplifier? Tube amps are made using vacuum tubes, which were invented in 1925. Using a glass bulb akin to a light bulb, tube amps take a weak signal and amplify it several times through ...

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