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A pick punch to make picks from old credit cards A guitar cleaning kit If a musician loves their ... There's nothing like a tube amp. If they don't have one and you've got the dough to help ...

I just plug my guitar into the amp and I play.” When he plays, he’s partial to the blues. “We play a little slower, and we put feeling and vibrato and stuff onto our notes, and a good tube ...

A simple, no-frills compact design that does its main job successfully; this is yet another superb-sounding Rega stereo amplifier. Why you can trust What Hi-Fi? Our expert team reviews products in ...

After a brief review of the history of the K2-W vacuum-tube op amp, an LTspice model is used to create its schematic in preparation for SPICE simulation. The availability of hierarchical blocks ...

Choosing the best amplifier is an important decision you’ll find yourself making when it comes to setting up your home Hi-Fi or home theater system. If you’ve got active speakers (i.e. ones that plug ...

Software & Media - Any software or media that has been opened or registered via physical or digital means. Any product containing a valve, e.g valve amps are only covered for 90 days from purchase.

Glenn Croft has been building his range of solid state, tube, and hybrid products for over 3 decades and it’s one of those odd products that just sounds so much better than other amplifiers in the ...

The dining room set-up allowed me to place the C 318BEE V2 on a solid wood credenza flanked by the NAD C 588 turntable, and Pro-Ject Tube Box DS2 phono pre-amplifier. All cabling was from Audio Art, ...

Software & Media - Any software or media that has been opened or registered via physical or digital means. Any product containing a valve, e.g valve amps are only covered for 90 days from purchase.