All items tagged with tubes (119)
Book Review: How to Design and Specify Loudspeaker Drivers
April 10, 2019 by Richard Honeycutt

Book Review: How to Design and Specify Loudspeaker Drivers

Our longtime columnist Richard Honeycutt shares his insights on Geoff Hill’s recently released book, Loudspeaker Modelling and Design: A Practical Introduction, which demonstrates modern software and hardware being applied to the processes behind loudspeaker design and modeling. Learn more about this indispensable work, now available from publisher Routledge / Focal Press. This article was originally published in audioxpress, February 2019.
Read more...
audioXpress May 2019 Glass Audio Special is Now Available!
April 9, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress May 2019 Glass Audio Special is Now Available!

For audioXpress May 2019 -Glass Audio Special - we’ve put together a very strong edition, with some of best tube experts sharing a series of DIY projects for all skill levels, from restoration projects to new amplifiers, preamps, and headphone amps. We review the Nu:Tekt HA-K1 headphone amplifier using the novel Korg Nutube 6P1 device, and interview the founder of Parks Audio. We go deep on measuring voltage regulator ripple rejection and we even look at square-wave testing. All inside audioXpress May 2019!
Read more...
Lavoce WSF121.70G 12” Guitar Speaker Selected for New Orange Tremlord 30 Combo
January 24, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Lavoce WSF121.70G 12” Guitar Speaker Selected for New Orange Tremlord 30 Combo

Transducer company Lavoce Italiana is kicking-off another edition of the NAMM Show with the announcement that iconic guitar amp brand Orange Amplifiers have selected the Lavoce WSF121.70G 12” guitar speaker for their most vintage guitar amplifier ever, the new TremLord 30 combo. Officially launching at NAMM 2019, and pitched by Orange as ‘The Amp We Never Made – Until Today’, the TremLord 30 is a 30W 1x12 all valve guitar combo, with built-in valve driven tremolo and reverb, engineered as a fifties inspired amp for the modern player.
Read more...
Audient Introduces Sono Amp Modeling Recording Interface with Tube Preamp Stage
January 11, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Audient Introduces Sono Amp Modeling Recording Interface with Tube Preamp Stage

Audient has teamed up with leading cab simulation pioneers, twonotes audio engineering to present Sono, an audio interface with a tube guitar preamp stage for guitarists and musicians, featuring powerful modeling capabilities. The combination provides countless tonal options for guitarists, whether they're recording, practicing or playing live. The integrated DSP runs the modeling without latency, with external software only used to configure the multiple simulations.
Read more...
How Good Is Your Port
January 9, 2019 by Bohdan Raczynski

How Good Is Your Port

Ported enclosures are known to extend the low-frequency output of loudspeakers by exploiting the Helmholtz resonator effect produced by the compliance of the air inside the enclosure and inertance of the air in the port. This article looks at the problem of port nonlinearity to determine the correct port size, and the acoustic impedance of the port under high air velocity. This article was originally published in audioXpress, September 2001.
Read more...
audioXpress.com - The Most Popular Stories of 2018
December 28, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress.com - The Most Popular Stories of 2018

2018 was another record-breaking year for audioXpress.com with visits and users doubling the figures compared to our record year in 2016. Want to know which of the topics and stories published online in 2018 were the most popular? We looked at the most-read articles of 2018 in audioXpress.com (which also includes selected articles from Voice Coil magazine), and we created this Top 10 list of news stories and online articles. Here are the results!
Read more...
VANA LTD Brings Handmade E.A.T Vacuum Tubes to North American Market
October 19, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

VANA LTD Brings Handmade E.A.T Vacuum Tubes to North American Market

VANA, Ltd. is now the North American distributor for European Audio Team’s (E.A.T.) line of vacuum tubes made in the Czech Republic. E.A.T. is dedicated to hand making the finest 300B and KT88 tubes tested on custom made instruments to meet the highest standards. E.A.T. Vacuum Tubes are painstakingly handcrafted within a former Tesla factory in the Czech Republic, under the supervision of Jozefina Lichtenegger and using the manufacturing equipment previously in the Tesla Vrsovice factory.
Read more...
Book Review: Examining Fundamental Amplifier Techniques with Electron Tubes, 2nd Edition
September 26, 2018 by Richard Honeycutt

Book Review: Examining Fundamental Amplifier Techniques with Electron Tubes, 2nd Edition

Richard Honeycutt reviews the second and more extensive edition of this electronics classic, Fundamental Amplifier Techniques with Electron Tubes. He gives high marks to this massive tome that provides useful information about electron tube technology, including their power supplies, for the design and DIY construction of these electron tube audio amplifiers.
Read more...
Waves Audio Now Shipping the Waves Abbey Road Chambers Plugin
July 26, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Waves Audio Now Shipping the Waves Abbey Road Chambers Plugin

Waves Audio' new Abbey Road Chambers plugin recreates a defining part of Abbey Road Studios' legendary sonic signature – the echo chamber used by Abbey Road’s engineers, to create exciting reverbs, delays and other unique spatial effects on countless classic recordings by the Beatles and beyond. Developed together with Abbey Road Studios, the Chambers plug-ins allows users to explore the Studio Two echo chamber, complete with the original valve Neumann KM53 microphones and Altec 605 speaker, as used on almost every pop recording done at Abbey Road during the ‘60s.
Read more...
Solid State Logic Native V6 Completely New Processing Plug-In Bundle Released
May 22, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Solid State Logic Native V6 Completely New Processing Plug-In Bundle Released

Solid State Logic announced the release of the new SSL Native v6 plug-in bundle. SSL Native V6 plug-ins replace SSL’s acclaimed Duende Native plug-in collection with completely re-written versions. The fundamental audio characteristics of the plug-ins remain unchanged but there have been a range of improvements which include new higher resolution user interfaces, improved Preset management, and expanded purchase and subscription options to suit the needs and pockets of a wider range of users.
Read more...