Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Randall Ball of Ball Amplification about the worldwide guitar tube shortage and the reason behind the warm sounds they produce. Guitar players are always searching for the ...

Nearly 25 years ago Sennheiser introduced its Orpheus headphones, which were widely considered at the time to be at the leading edge of headphone design and quality – they cost US$16,000. For the last ...

We have no intention of wading into the vacuum tube versus silicon debates audiophiles seem to thrive on. But we know a quality build when we see it, and this gorgeous tube preamp certainly looks like ...

MONTESANO — In Bob Carter’s private museum of phonographs and radios, shelves are crowded with the technology of the past. Glass vacuum tubes peek out from between wooden panels, burnished metal and ...

EASTHAMPTON — In a world ruled by the microchip, David Mell’s customers at Viva Tubes crave the soft electric hum and warm audio tone of the old-fashioned analog vacuum tube. Tubes — simple devices ...

Butch Vig, drummer, songwriter and producer of the multiplatinum band Garbage, has a state-of-the-art digital recording studio in which two 64-channel mixing boards mesh with the computerized ...

Back in the 1950s, before the advent of transistors, valves powered all audio devices. Readers in the USA may know valves as tubes; small glass vacuum tubes that glow with heat and do the ...