There are plenty of tube amplifiers now being manufactured, with a popular choice being headphone amplifiers that use a tube as a gain stage followed by an op-amp as a buffer with a low impedance ...

Headphone brand Écoute has launched a pair of headphones with a vacuum tube and amplification built-in. The headphones are ...

The idea of putting a tube in a pair of headphones does tend to bring mental images of massive lightbulb-sized tubes to mind, ...

[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 ...

There are a couple of reasons I suspect it's taken this long to see a vacuum tube in a pair of headphones. Tubes are hungry beasts, with higher power draws than other methods of amplification. They ...

Astell & Kern CA1000T headphone amplifier: was £2,299 now £999 at ... It combines solid state and tube amplification enabling you to choose between the two modes or mix them together.

Such is the dominance of digital audio today that it is rare to come across an all-analogue anything in hi-fi that isn’t a turntable or an associated component, let alone a headphone amplifier, a ...

Headphone brand Écoute has launched a pair ... If you're familiar with tube amps you'll want to know the expected lifespan of that integrated vacuum tube. According to Écoute the expected ...

FiiO has announced the BTR17, a new portable headphone amplifier built around Qualcomm’s new flagship QCC5181 Bluetooth chip, which not only complies with the Bluetooth LE Audio standard and has ...