The article mentions Gordon Rankin, the owner and proprietor of Wavelength Audio, one of the main movers in the vacuum tube revival in the USA. Gordon makes a variety of DACs for PCs that incorporate a vacuum tube stage at the output. His products are well designed, great sounding and simply beautiful. His DAC in the article is called "The Brick" and it looks like one, but here is a lovely 2.5 watt stereo amplifier he made:
Kudos to you Gordon
8 comments:
...what speakers do you run?
My speaks are homemade. the drivers are 12" coaxials made by PHY (a french company) paper cones, alnico magnets and silver voice coils.
the Box is a hybrid between a back loaded horn and a transmission line made from cherry and maple.
shoulda guessed it wouldn't be something that would help me as I'm trying to figure out which speakers to buy. :)
paper cones and alnico magnets are magic together. paper cones, alnico magnets and a single ended triode amp are audio nirvana. I'd be happy to share the blueprints for my boxes.
I got burnt out building/doing my own stereo stuff after about 6 years in car audio...I just want to do the work of handing over the credit card for this.
Thanks for being willing to share, though.
Here are some commercial speaks that use the PHY drivers:
http://www.musicalaffairs.com/prod/grandcrescendo_en.php
http://www.auditorium23.de/Speakers/Solovox.html
So wait, I'm supposed to spend thousands of dollars on something that sounds approximately 3% better? What economic model is going to tell me this is a good use of my (very) scarce resources?
Secondly, if I made everything lossless I'd have like 10TB of music. I am accepting donations of hard drives, however.
robert....allow me to dispense some of my propaganda. You don't need to go lossless...
Public service message about how to get some good sound with mp3's
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