There’s a mystique in audiophile circles about tube amplifiers. They can have a very ... but they are often portrayed as requiring rare and expensive components. You don’t need matched gold ...

Lastly, tube amps are generally more expensive compared to solid-state digital amps. Besides the higher price tags, maintaining a tube amp is also more costly. After a few years of regular use ...

Sure, they're heavier and more expensive than many other offerings on the market—but this is generally true for a reason. Tube amplifiers tend to fetch top dollar because they provide the ...

“What we have here can probably be described as the world's most expensive three-channel amp,” he says ... 1981 Ibanez Tube Screamer, MXR Micro Flanger, EHX Micro POG, and Fuzz Face.

Tube amplifiers certainly require more hands-on maintenance and ... Supply chain issues have also made tubes more expensive and that is certainly true in regard to 300B and 845 output tubes. The ...

That can make holiday shopping difficult, but fortunately for those on the hunt, there’s always more: that holy grail guitar pedal, the eye-wateringly expensive tube amp, or just one more ...

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The Schiit Audio Folkvangr Headphone Amplifier is $1,800 and uses 10 tubes ... issues exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have made tube rolling extremely problematic and expensive. The last ...