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Big-name tube amplifiers often don’t come cheap. Being the preserve of dedicated audiophiles, those delicate hi-fis put their glass components on show to tell you just how pricy they really …read more Continue reading Convert a Cheap Tube Preamp Into A Headphone Amp With Jenny
As electronics rely more and more on ICs, subtle details about discrete components get lost because we spend less time designing with them. For example, a relay seems like a …read more Continue reading Understanding The Miller Effect
For those who have not dealt with the automotive side of electronics before, it comes as somewhat of a shock when you find out just how much extra you have …read more Continue reading Building An Automotive Load Dump Tester
One of the hardest things about studying electricity, and by extension electronics, is that you generally can’t touch or see anything directly, and if you can you’re generally having a …read more Continue reading Mechanical Logic Gates With Amplification
One of the hardest things about studying electricity, and by extension electronics, is that you generally can’t touch or see anything directly, and if you can you’re generally having a …read more Continue reading Mechanical Logic Gates With Amplification
Experimenting in the world of particle physics probably brings to mind large, expensive pieces of equipment like particle accelerators, or at least exotic elements or isotopes that most of us …read more Continue reading Particle Physics on a Small, Affordable PCB
When we talk about audio amplifier tubes, we’re normally talking about the glass little blobby things you might find in a guitar amplifier. We’re not normally talking about big ol’ …read more Continue reading You Can Use A CRT As An Audio Amplifier Tube
Eminent Technology has announced the Model Twenty Two – the “world’s first flat panel active guitar speaker.” Super-lightweight and about the size of a chunky picture frame, this 120-decibel oddity can now be your guitar amp, cab and FRFR speaker.Conti… Continue reading Featherweight flat-panel guitar speaker now has a monster amp built in
If you’ve ever wondered why something like a radio or a TV could command a hefty fraction of a family’s yearly income back in the day, a likely culprit is …read more Continue reading Flipped Transformer Powers Budget-Friendly Vacuum Tube Amp
Before the invention of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) microphones, almost all microphones in cell phones and other electronics were a type of condenser microphone called the electret microphone. The fact that …read more Continue reading Low-Cost Electret Microphone Preamplifiers