CQ Amateur Radio

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Two decades ago, in 1999, I wrote a column predicting what I thought the future would be like in the coming 20 years and, as strange as it seems to me, it’s finally here. As it appears that the COVID-19 situation is still not well under control by th

Hi Fi News

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I’m aware that Ken Kessler needs no help from me, but I thought a letter that appeared in the April Sound Off pages which appeared to be having a mild ‘dig’ at Ken was a little unfair. The writer implied that Ken only liked highly esoteric or colossa

Stereophile

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I am the world’s worst consumer. Not only have I made more than my share of disastrous purchase decisions, I’m also inexplicably luckless: If there’s one defective sample or repack in an inventory, it will find me. I’m also a deceit magnet, and I’m s

Music Tech Focus

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Details Manufacturer Plugin Alliance/Black Box Analog Design Price $249 Contact via website Web www.pluginalliance.com Minimum system requirements Windows 7, Intelcompatible CPU with SSE2 instruction set (P4-compatible or higher, min 2GHz recommended

Stereophile

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VAC’s Statement 452 iQ Musicbloc amplifier ($75,000 for a single amp; $150,000/pair mono, as reviewed) is tall, young, and lovely, but unlike the girl from Ipanema, it isn’t tan. Nor, at 280lb in its flight case, is it likely to “go walkin’.” Getting

Stereophile

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I had never been alone with a Russian-manufactured 6C33C tube. At least not at night, in the dark. The first night Balanced Audio Technology’s VK-56SE tubed amplifier was in my system, I sat on the floor studying the unusual shape and dark orange glo

Hi-Fi Choice

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PrimaLuna EvoLution 100 Tube Digital AnaLogue Converter Netherlands/China DAC 13.4kg (WxHxD) 280 x 191 x 404mm 24-bit/192kHz PCM and DSD128-capable DAC Inputs: 1x USB-B; 1x coaxial; 1x optical; 1x AES Absolute Sounds Ltd. 0208 9713909 absolutesounds.

Guitar Magazine

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Have a burning question about your amp or, worse still, a burning amp? Email us at editors@guitar.com Last time around, I researched, designed and populated the component board of my long-gestating EH-185 clone. Now it’s time to start work on the cha

How It Works

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A large fan covers the front of the train, sucking air from the tube in front and redirecting it to the back. As air is pushed back through the tube, air resistance on the moving train is reduced. Trains will be split into small capsules, linked toge

Hi Fi News

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MM/MC hybrid tube phono preamp Made by: European Audio Team, Prague, Czech Republic Supplied by: Absolute Sounds Ltd Telephone: 0208 971 3909 Web: www.europeanaudioteam.com; www.absolutesounds.com Price: £1249 Atransistor/tube hybrid costing £1249, t

Guitar World

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STREET PRICE: Starting at $89 MANUFACTURER: Distributed in North America by ILIO, Overloud.com •The Amp Tweaks feature allows users to swap preamp tubes or diodes, power amp tubes or types (solid-state, Class A/AB) and adjust Variac voltage. •The

Hi Fi News

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Reading the EAT E-Glo i amplifier review [HFN Oct ’20] I noticed that the preamp valves were fitted with red tube coolers, which EAT calls ‘dampers’. Aside from their obvious purpose, has any one ever detected any audible difference with or without t

Stereophile

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Only recently did I learn that successive generations of the Chevrolet Corvette are referred to by the cognoscenti with two-character alpha-numeric identifiers: C1, C2, C3, and so on. I learned this while reading about the most recent version—C8, kno

Guitar Magazine

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Have a burning question about your amp, or worse still, a burning amp? Email us at editors@guitar.com Hi Chris. Is it true that I can damage my amp by not using the standby switch? And if so, why don’t all amps have them? PAUL, TORQUAY Valves have be

Hi Fi News

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It is perhaps fitting, and not coincidental, that the classic KT88 tube that kicked-off Jozefina Lichtenegger’s career in hi-fi some 20 years ago should be chosen as the heart of EAT’s first integrated amplifier. Jozefina took over production of the

Hi-Fi Choice

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A flexible, well-made integrated, the Stereo 40 MkIV really advances the budget valve amp cause. It’s bristling with tweaky features, the most notable of which is that it can work with a range of output valves from EL34 to KT88 (including KT66/77/90,

Stereophile

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THIS ISSUE: A second listen to a single-ended amp from Air Tight. Nine months ago, while I was busy reviewing Axiss Audio’s Air Tight ATM-300R1 single-ended power amp ($16,995 with Electro-Harmonix output tubes), my new old house was still new to me,

Hi Fi News

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Manufacturers should not be criticised for responding to changing tastes. CD has forever changed the face of hi-fi, so all you’re doing when you mourn the passage of the phono stage is increase the value of shares in sackcloth and ashes. Instead, be

Stereophile

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Products come and go. Some impress more than others, and in our little world, the ones that impress the most wind up in Class A of our semiannual Recommended Components feature. After a product makes it to that list, if Stereophile’s reviewers go mor

Australian Guitar

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Positive Grid’s range of amp modelling products occupies a unique niche, available in software and hardware versions in everything from smartphone apps to full-on amplifier heads. The company knows it’s on a winner with its BIAS Head and BIAS Rack un

CQ Amateur Radio

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This month marks CQ’s 75th anniversary issue! Seventy-five years ago, World War II was ending, the Atomic Age was being ushered in, V2 rocket technology (Photo A) initiated a space race between the Soviet Union and the USA that culminated 24 years la

Hi-Fi Choice

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PRICE: £15,000 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: ABSOLUTESOUNDS.COM AS YOU DOUBTLESS know, HFC is all about the ace and affordable but every now and then we like to forget how skint we all are and drool over a piece of gorgeous kit well out of our price range. Fee

Hi-Fi Choice

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PREVENTING NOISE FROM entering the audio path of your system can be quite a challenge. The use of high-quality, screened coaxial interconnects can really help, but even these let very high-frequency noise in. To tackle this, Russ Andrews has introduc

Music Tech Magazine

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With the latest addition to its Premier range of authentic audio replicas, Swedish company Golden Age is looking to set a new gold standard with the GA-800G tube condenser microphone, a feature-laden unit that looks set to work its way into professio

Hi Fi News

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This should have been the simplest, swiftest review for me to undertake: I would simply drop the stereo version of the Audio Research Reference 160M [HFN Aug ’18] into my system in place of the Reference 75SE. Double the number of KT150s and double t

CQ Amateur Radio

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CQ is in the middle of celebrating its 75th year of serving the Amateur Radio Service. Within those 75 years, technology and ham radio experienced tremendous change. Arguably, one of the biggest changes involved the transition from vacuum tube techno

Hi Fi News

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Cut from the same cloth as the Reference 160S [HFN Feb ’20], but with a reduction in tube complement and lower 80W rated power output, Audio Research’s Reference 80S (£14,998) is the latest premium valve amplifier to roll out of the company’s Minneso

Hi Fi News

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Shortly after the turn of the new millennium, PrimaLuna began manufacturing valve amplifiers for buyers hankering for an alternative to the stereotypical solid-state sound. The Netherlands-based company launched accessible tube designs with up-to-the

Hi Fi News

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Editor PM caught up with Vinnie Rossi during ‘lockdown’ on both sides of the pond, intrigued to discover VR’s earliest influences. ‘I studied electrical engineering in the ’90s while working as a test engineer for a major telecom giant’, Vinnie began

Australian HiFi

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We now have a select range of the new PrimaLuna products on display – and we still have some remnants of the previous series left at clearance prices, check the specials section of our website! This brand of valve-based electronics has become synonym