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GOLDEN VOICE 2A3C Given the unusual times we now live in and the Chinese New Year celebrated just a couple of days ago, I think this is a fi...

  It's been over five years since I built this  loctal preamp . I moved it recently so that it'd be between my two turntables. In th...

Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for Solo Violin An important lesson I learned as a classically trained violinist was that music ...

Tube rolling is a fun aspect of the audio hobby. It only gets tedious when audiophiles start splitting hairs about a VT231, 5692, etc. I dra...

Joe Roberts' piece,  "I Never Met a 2A3 Amp That I Didn't Like,"  from Sound Practices Issue 15, is very persuasive. I bui...

Ever since I grafted a 6SN7 on the line stage section of my hacked  Dyna PAS preamp , I've been hooked on the "octal sound." ...

I've always found tubes with grid caps fascinating. 😉 I've been evaluating a project using this tube. Stay tuned!  

I've become cynical of the latest is best mentality because in my 30 years of searching for sound that pleases my ears, I've alway...

Radiotron SE2A3 with Noguchi PMF-15WS Shot with an  Ansco Super Speedex  loaded with Foma 100 and developed in Kodak HC110 dilution B...

Alternative hi-mu triodes in place of my favorite octals The type 75 is the grandaddy of all hi-mu audio triodes culminating...