I've been growing restless lately, and I've been looking for my next DIY project. I just build my first set of speakers, and I would like to build a tube amp for them. I've wanted to build my own tube ...

[Simon] wrote in to tell us about a headphone tube amp that he just built. It is based on schematics at diyaudioprojects.com that were actually featured on Hackaday in the past. [Simon’s] design adds ...

There are great presents, and then there are truly awesome presents: this home-built vacuum tube iPod amplifier and speakers falls most definitely into the latter category. Given to Peter Redmer by ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Half a century ago, vacuum tubes were very common in audio ...

A few years back, [Gio] decided to try his hand at building a couple of tube amplifiers. The first amp was more of an experiment to see how well a DIY single-ended tube amp would sound. The amp is ...

I don't know how good they are, but you could check out the bottlehead kits. I have not heard them nor tried to build them, so I'm not much help there, but I though you might want to take a look.

For a long time, standalone DACs (digital to analog converters) and headphone amps were something only audiophiles bothered with. Now, with the resurgence in popularity of headphones, they’re getting ...

Probably like most people who learned engineering after the 1970s I was never formally taught anything about vacuum tubes. They'd long since been relegated to the electronics history books. But I had ...