Cryogenic and long plate valves tubes There are offers of Cryogenic and long plate valves tubes in the marketplace. What is this all about? There are long plate versus short plate preamp valves and matching of valves. Some can be mighty expensive so it is worth the time to look at these options and see if it is real value for money or just another marketing angle to make you part with your money Here […]
We had some issues with the search engine on finding the right valve kits for your amp. It has taken a lot of work and this is now fully operational from today, 19th June, 2015. The idea is that if you first click the “Make” tab there is a list of amps ( check the whole list as its not yet alphabetical order !) and choose your amp make. Then click on the “Model” and
This is a sneak preview of our new amp prototype that we have been working on. It is all valve It will soon be ready and final units for sale Once we are satisfied how it sounds, we are on our way to having a really nice vintage style amp. It is built as close as we can to the original amps back in the early 1960’s. It is hand wired on turret board. It
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
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.)
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
