by f8creates | May 6, 2014
I have developed a wide variation of amplification over the many years that I have been involved with professional audio, quite a few have remained proto-types, and one off’s etc, and some have actually made it into production, and have even gone on to be quite well...
by f8creates | May 6, 2014
There were only two of these amps, both prototypes; built around the mid 1990’s one KT88 single-ended, the other a push-pull EL84 design. Both were integrated and had valve rectification. KT88 Single-Ended This amp was made with the ‘hard to please’...
by f8creates | May 6, 2014
30 Watt Original Version The first of this series were thirty-watt and pure class A, as reviewed in Hi Fi Choice in 1998 by Jason Kennedy. They used two KT88s and two 6SN7s in each channel, which were configured as follows; first stage directly coupled to a concertina...
by f8creates | May 6, 2014
This was the all new line level pre-amp from Tube Distinctions, [first launched in 2004] aptly named the ‘Soul-Mate’, as it was originally designed specifically to compliment the existing Soul Series power amplifier range. Like the amplifiers, it is quite...
by f8creates | May 6, 2014
Overview Power amplification, or the last stage of gain in a hi-fi system, can be described in its simplest form as a ‘modulated power supply’ required to drive a loudspeaker. Historically, they can be categorised into three main groups: class A solid...
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