Over the weekend, I got my hands on a bunch of vintage audio valves and rectifiers. I went through all of them and tested them and that blew most of my weekend. Testing valves and doing matching is a boring but very necessary job! Some were brand new in boxes, some were loose in Tupperware containers and obviously had been used. I was curious also to see the test results of vintage versus new valves […]
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We have just added the JJ 5Y3S to our expanding range of valve full wave rectifiers. You can now find the right rectifier for just about any guitar and bass amp ever made since the 1950’s ! It is used in amps such as the Fender Champ and most of the early Fender Tweed style amps. examples are the Tweed -Princetons, Harvard. In these amps do not be tempted to use NOS ( New Old
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I found this link regarding the history of speakers in Fender amps. I found this useful so I thought I would share it. I found it on another blog. (UPDATE: Unfortunately, that site is now seemingly defunct.)
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We are working on a new amp design which is a nice simple hand wired amp. It is a vintage style traditional valve ( tube amp) . It is early Fender style. I While it is really good to have an original vintage amp ( I have one) , I saw someone ( I cannot remember where) I read it ) making the comparison of owning an original vintage amp to having an old classic
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Adding more amp models We are adding more amp valve kits to the web store. In response to customers asking about Engl amps, we have added a number of Engl Amp model valve kits to the website. We want to make sure that the website has as many of the amps for which you need valve kits. We want to make sure we have your amp listed . Please let us know if your amp
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I thought I would try and make sense of why do we like the sound of valve versus solid state amps. ” Solid state” is the name that was banded about in the 1960’s to sell the new transistorised technology. I am old enough to remember this new technology coming on the market. We were told that it was more reliable, much better sound quality, lower distortion, lower noise. This sold us all on solid-state”?
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How many of you have wondered , ” How Old is the Valve (Tube) technology in my amp?” Valves as we call them in the UK have been around for about a 100 years !! I decided to check out when the common valves ( ones that we sell) first came on the market. When checking this information sometimes there was some arguement on the exact year so if you alllow give or take one
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