A valve audio amplifier (UK) or vacuum tube audio amplifier (US) is a valve amplifier used for sound reinforcement, sound recording and reproduction....
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A valve amplifier or tube amplifier is a type of electronic amplifier that uses vacuum tubes to increase the amplitude or power of a signal. Low to medium...
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specifications and detailed information on the valve audio amplifier, including its development history. Valves (also known as vacuum tubes) are very high...
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An audio power amplifier (or power amp) amplifies low-power electronic audio signals, such as the signal from a radio receiver or an electric guitar pickup...
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equalization. Audiophile High-end audio High fidelity Valve audio amplifier integrated amplifier What is an integrated amplifier? Queen's University ENPH333...
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A valve RF amplifier (UK and Aus.) or tube amplifier (U.S.) is a device for electrically amplifying the power of an electrical radio frequency signal....
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The Williamson amplifier is a four-stage, push-pull, Class A triode-output valve audio power amplifier designed by D. T. N. Williamson during World War...
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Tube sound (redirect from Valve sound)
(or valve sound) is the characteristic sound associated with a vacuum tube amplifier (valve amplifier in British English), a vacuum tube-based audio amplifier...
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power amplifier Lock-in amplifier Low-noise amplifier Negative feedback amplifier Optical amplifier Programmable-gain amplifier Tuned amplifier Valve amplifier...
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Distortion (music) (category Audio effects)
"Maybellene" features a guitar solo with warm overtones created by his small valve amplifier. Pat Hare produced heavily distorted power chords on his electric guitar...
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Single-ended triode (redirect from SET amplifier)
triode amplifier is mainly used for output stages of audio power amplifiers. The phrase directly heated triode single-ended triode amplifier (abbreviated...
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Quad Electroacoustics (redirect from Quad (audio))
mono valve PA amplifier- 1941+ M31 integrated mono valve PA amplifier - 1946+ MB31 integrated mono valve PA amplifier - 1946+ M32 integrated mono valve PA...
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titles beginning with Valve Valve amplifier (tube amplifier) Valve audio amplifier Valve RF amplifier Valve gear Valve train Valveless Valvetronic This...
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Marshall Amplification (redirect from Marshall Amplifiers)
expensive than their all-valve counterparts. It is Marshall's current line of "hybrid" amplifier, featuring a 12AX7 preamplifier valve employed in the preamplifier...
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A headphone amplifier is a low-powered audio amplifier designed particularly to drive headphones worn on or in the ears, instead of loudspeakers in speaker...
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of the distortion. Historically, valve amplifiers were often used as a class-A power amplifier simply because valves are large and expensive; many class-A...
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reasons. Amplifiers for harder, heavier genres often use valve amplifiers (known as tube amplifiers in North America) also. Valve amplifiers are perceived...
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prolific Chinese manufacturers of valve (tube) based audio equipment. They claim to have "engage [sic] in power amplifier research and production more than...
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Tetrode (redirect from Bi-grid valve)
example the single-valve ship receiver Type 91) where the same valve performed the combined functions of RF amplifier, AF amplifier, and diode detector...
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Audiophile (redirect from Audio woo)
valve amplifiers" (PDF). 118th AES Convention, Barcelona, Spain. O'Connell, Joseph (January 1992). "The Fine-Tuning of a Golden Ear: High-End Audio and...
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A bass amplifier (also abbreviated to bass amp) is a musical instrument electronic device that uses electrical power to make lower-pitched instruments...
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Mullard 5-10 (category Valve amplifiers)
Circuits for Audio Amplifiers" covering a range of amplifier and pre-amplifier circuits using valves developed within the Receiving Valve Development Department...
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Virtual Valve Amplifier (VVA) is software algorithm designed and sold by Diamond Cut Productions, Inc. for simulating the sound of various valve amplifier designs...
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power amplifier, some of which have output power measured in kilowatts, and are used in amateur radio. Other types of linear amplifier are used in audio and...
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or thermionic valve that was invented by Gilles Holst and Bernhard D.H. Tellegen in 1926. The pentode (called a triple-grid amplifier in some literature)...
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Ultra-linear (category Electronic amplifiers)
distributed loading. A pentode or tetrode vacuum-tube (valve) configured as a common-cathode amplifier (where the output signal appears on the plate) may...
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Vox "Valve Reactor" power amplifier, Hughes&Kettner "Dynavalve" power amplifier, Mesa Boogie Triaxis Tube Preamp, Pritchard guitar amplifiers and Quilter...
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DIY Audio, do it yourself audio. Rather than buying a piece of possibly expensive audio equipment, such as a high-end audio amplifier or speaker, the...
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A valve microphone is a condenser microphone which uses a valve amplifier rather than a transistor circuit. Microphones have been in use since the early...
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Vacuum tube (redirect from Radio valve)
microwave ovens, and some high-frequency amplifiers. Many audio enthusiasts prefer otherwise obsolete tube/valve amplifiers for the claimed "warmer" tube sound...
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