The guitarist's comments come in the wake of his clever solution to the noise restrictions that affected Dead & Company’s Las ...

Mayer devised a workaround that would allow him to play his prized Dumble and Fender setup at the notoriously amp-unfriendly ...

There’s a mystique among both audiophiles and musicians about vacuum technology, thus having a tube amp still carries a bit of a cachet. New ones can be bought for eye-watering prices and old ...

A few years ago, though, Blackstar Amplification saw an opportunity for change, with some modern thinking. The St James range ...

There’s a mystique in audiophile circles about tube amplifiers. They can have a very nice sound which is attributed to their even-harmonic distortion, but they are often portrayed as requiring ...

Huge specification. Tiny footprint. That's the pitch for the new Rotel DX-3, a compact headphone amplifier and standalone DAC ...

Sampson had recently returned to Bad Cat, and was even involved in launching the Era 30 tube amp at this year's NAMM ...

One big change is the addition of two JAN6418 vacuum tubes, with the M8T featuring both a tube amp and a transistor-based headphone amplifier. Tube amps are often sought-after for their ‘natural ...

One of the great pioneers of US high-end tube amps, Sampson co-founded Matchless and had recently returned to Bad Cat after a ...