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An At Cost Vacuum Tube Audio Amp for Home theater, DVD, and CD players all need an amplifier in order to bring the sound into your living room in a "live concert", or "walk in movie theater" type experience. Absolutely nothing accomplishes this better than the 60 year old technology of vacuum tube amplifiers.Here on this website you will discover why this 60-70 year old technology is still alive and well today, and so revered and respected around the world. 


WHY ARE VACUUMTUBES SO VERY GOOD AT HANDLING MUSIC?

Back before digital computers, there was such a thing as "Analog Computers" which operated using, not transistors, but vacuum tubes. I worked on such a computer in the U.S.A.F. in the early 60's which served as Auto Pilot and Bomb Navigation, and "Fire Control"

( ordinance delivery ). Gryoscopes on the Jet Fighter, F-100, sent position and motion information to the computer-especially rapid motion caused by buffeting. The vacuum tube computer handled what amounts to constant calculus equations, sending elecrical signals to the servo-mechanisms to...get this now...correct a buffet BEFORE it happened. The computer was that fast. It made for a rock solid, stable, perfectly smooth "Gun Platform" from which the pilot could track and fire upon moving targets.

Now that you have an idea how lightning fast the computer was, it was many more decades before digital computers caught up in speed of operation.. Now you understand how and why vacuum tubes handle the rapidly undulating electrical signals that music actually  is when pouring through an amplifier from your CD and DVD player.

This is the "Blueberry Amp" which uses 6SL7 tubes ( triodes ) and 6BX7 or 6BL7 triodes for the 3 watt per channel output. This amp sells as ready built ( only two available) for $1270. A custom build can cost up to $2800 depending on whether exotic woods are used, and/or more expensive components. But the basic model is absolutely superb.


    This is the "Theater Amp" which uses the 300B Triode Tube from the 40's. Considered the most musical vacuum tube ever created. It may be thanks to the extraordinarily large surface area of the Anode..the very long Grid,... and the very long filament of Thoriated Tungsten, boiling off prodigious quantities of electrons.

    Price - $3700

    We wish to share information about audio tube amps and help spread the joy and thrill of having some really good sound in your home. The designs came about after much hard work, and considerable expense, by virtue of trial and error. These two amps presented here are both very good. I guarantee satisfaction, or a full refund.

    You may also simply buy the schematic @ $150. I can provide a kit for the Blueberry  and all components for $970, including chassis components, and a few drawings of critical connections for switch, power supply, headphones.  You must be an adult, or be supervised by one, and sign a waiver of product liability, and  personal liability. Tube amps generate lethal voltages. You rather must be technically proficient, sober, and extremely careful.