FELIKS AUDIO ENVY PERFORMANCE HEADPHONE AMP REVIEW The Feliks Audio Envy Performance Edition 300B SET Headphone Amp is (in this guise) a headphone amp that costs €8599, a price that places it clearly in the high-end category.
WESTERN ELECTRIC 91E INTEGRATED VALVE AMP NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UK THROUGH ABSOLUTE SOUNDS The road to seeing the Western Electric 91E Integrated Amplifier become available to buy has been a long one, but now it hits the UK with distributor Absolute Sounds.
JADIS I300 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW The Jadis I300 is a 300B integrated amplifier with the power tubes in a push-pull configuration. Stu takes a listen.
HIGH END VIETNAMESE HIFI BRAND THIVANLABS RELEASE NEW AMPLIFIERS ThivanLabs of Vietnam has released three new valve amplifiers in their new generation collection.
TRAFOMATIC AUDIO RHAPSODY PSE 300B INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER High end Serbian valve electronics brand, Trafomatic Audio has released the new Trafomatic Audio Rhapsody.
WESTERN ELECTRIC 91E INTEGRATED 300B VALVE AMPLIFIER The Western Electric 91E Integrated Amplifier is now available to pre-order.
We have been following the story of the Western Electric 300B Vacuum Tube over the last few years, as the company has brought it back into full production at their manufacturing facility in Rossville, Georgia, USA.
Over the past few months, Western Electric says that the Rossville Works team has made giant leaps towards the finish line of getting the 300B valve back into full production. With every major sub-assembly operation online, they expect to see the first tubes pass inspection for delivery by the end of the year.
Audion has a long history in producing well-received valve-based amplifiers. Here Stuart Smith takes a listen to the Silver Night Anniversary 300B Parallel Single Ended monoblocs costing £5750.
The Mira Ceti from Fezz Audio is a 300B integrated amp using toroidal output transformers and costing £2330 in the UK. Stuart Smith plumbs it in and gives it a listen for Hifi Pig.
2018 saw Western Electric get their much loved 300B valves back into production, plus the brand has also made great progress with a new integrated amplifier, the 91E.
Tektron Italy is launching a UK office. We first came across these wonderful looking valve amps a few years ago at the Munich High End and really loved their design and so good to see them in the UK.
Charles Whitener President of Western Electric, has announced that the WE 300B electron tube will re-enter production this year, in time for its 80th Anniversary. The last Western Electric 300-B was manufactured in 1988 and since then they have become as rare as hen’s teeth.
best300B is a new online tube store new entity dedicated to DHT and other specialised high-end products and is run by Frank Fikus.
