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BEAUTIFUL SOUNDING AMPS, BEAUTIFULLY MADE BY HOME BUILDERS;...and why are vacuum tubes superior at amplfiying music?This site is devoted to home builders of vacuum tube amps, and Speaker Cabinets builders. The idea is to make available exquisitely crafted audio products made by hand for those who appreciate amazing things.
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. There is a lot on the web about tube amps ~ so much that it is hard to tell which amp is better than others. For all amp makers claim theirs is the 'superior' amp, don't they?
Read on. you will find out how they work, and what makes for the truly superior type of tube amp. Before we get started, it should be known that tube amps require big transformers to build up household voltage to very high voltages of around 800 volts peak to peak, and some 420 volts DC. All the components are expensive to make. This is the ONLY reason they fell out of favor at all. They did NOT fall out of favor because they were inferior to today's amps.
Because of the very high voltages on the tubes pulling electrons through and firing them to your speakers with brute force, and lightning like speed -THIS is precisely what makes tube amps superior still today. Just as you can see a 60 year old car driving around, you still see tube amps ...for the reason they are rugged, dependable, powerful, and a thing of great beauty to behold. Hence the name of our website "Beautiful-Amps"!
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.
Please Feel Free to Contact Us With Your Quesitons or Comments. Naturally, my idea is to sell assembled amps at approx $1700. The cost is very high for parts, and it takes 6 weeks to build just one. There is every bit as much difficulty building one as there is in doing an oil portrait. I know, I am a portrait artist. Therefore these are not cheap owing to the cost of materials and the weeks of labor intensive assembly. Some tube amp hobbyists may want to build one of these themselves. I can authorize the building of one amp. More than that then you are a competitor, and thus must pay royalties for duplicating my results of two years engineering and perfecting of the amp. It is great..and very stable and long lasting. I have been playing these for 4 years without any hint of failure. The more expensive TA on this website costs 3 times as much to build, and is still being perfected as we speak.Contact me with questions or comments.
www.bluebirdaudio.us.
Go to the above website for very detailed electronics theory , namely a synopsis of the well known and respected book by Colonel Rider, U.S.A.F, who wrote a textbook called " Inside the Vacuum Tube "
