High-end Italian brand, Tektron, have created a new product line that embodies the best of their 35 years of experience and development.
Lampizator of Poland has announced the Baltic-3 DAC.
In celebration of LGBT Pride Month 2020, Manley Labs announced the Massive Pride: a special edition of their classic best-selling Massive Passive Stereo Tube Equalizer with rainbow cosmetics derived from the original 1978 gay pride rainbow flag.
LampizatOr’s new MM2 Phonostage uses many of the features, trickled down from their flagship MC1 Phonostage. It is designed with a smaller footprint, and to suit a smaller budget.
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.
A valve amp at 1300 Euros sounds like a bit of a bargain. Add to the package an onboard phonostage and DAC and this Italian package starts to look even more attractive. Adam Billingham takes this latin beauty for a spin.
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. More »
Audio-Hungary have released their new, upgraded Qualiton APX 200 vacuum tube stereo power amplifier, with new features that were added after customer feedback. Only minor changes to the vents were made on the outside for optimised cooling and to keep the classic design. Most changes were made inside. More »
Feliks Audio, a Polish based manufacturer of hand crafted tube amplifiers, has released a prototype of their new desktop amplifier that can power both speakers and headphones. More »
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. More »
The TAGA Harmony HTA-25B uses a combination of valves and transistors to create an entry level hybrid amp. More »
Amare Musica of Poland have released their new Tube Network Player which is a combination of Tube Dac DSD and a network server/player. More »
Octave have launched their very first single-ended amplifier. The V16 Single-Ended has a range of high-end elements as well as an integrated headphone amp. More »
2017 marks the 40th anniversary of Conrad-Johnson design inc. and to celebrate, they are introducing two new anniversary tube amplifiers – the ART150 and ART300. These amplifiers employ the recently developed KT150 output tubes. More »
Luxman have announced the CL-38uSE and MQ-88uSE Special-edition valve preamplifier and power amplifier, with production limited to just 100 pieces of each. More »
Trafomatic Audio of Serbia sent us over pictures of their new Evolution amplifier series. More »
Eunice Kron of KR Audio dropped us a line to tell us what she would be bringing to this year’s High End Munich show.
The Conrad-Johnson design team say they are particularly excited with the introduction of two new Classic amplifiers, the Classic Sixty-Two (CL62) and Classic One-Twenty (CL120). More »
The iTube2 is a tubed output stage; tube preamp; tube buffer and an impedance-matching device. Put the iTube2 before a solid-state preamp with another iTube2 after it to create the effect of tubing the whole audio chain. Or simply use the iTube2 as a preamp by itself. The iTube2 with trickle-down technology from the flagship ‘Pro’ series has been redesigned with new parts and new circuitry. Only the GE5670 tube remains. More »
