The Arts and Media Audio Page

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Version – October 2006

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Tubes for Sale

This UK based site contains many useful audio links, and favours the creative DIY constructor who wants to save money, or simply build something original. Some things, like cables, are fairly simple. Others like tube amps are difficult but rewarding and need to be built and used with caution because of the high voltages they contain. The various links should hopefully interest both the novice and the enthusiast.

Hi-Fi Show Report – London 2000

Hi-Fi Show Report – London 2001

Modifying the Leak Stereo 20  - Chris Found’s circuit

5965 valve shootout

Cleaning LP records

DIY CAT-5 Cables

 

#Newsgroups

rec.audio.tech

rec.audio.tubes

rec.audio.high-end

rec.audio.pro

rec.audio.marketplace

uk.rec.audio

#Magazines Online:

http://www.hifinews.co.uk/  UK magazine online - HiFi News

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/ HiFi World. UK magazine (also supplies tube + speaker kits)

http://www.hifichoice.co.uk/ UK magazine online - HiFi Choice  

http://www.stereophile.com/ Stereophile magazine

http://www.audiorevolution.com Audio Visual e-mag. Reviews etc –

http://www.audioxpress.com/  magazine online

#Forums and #Review sites:

http://www.audioasylum.com/ Audio Asylum  – the premier discussion forum, especially for constructors

http://www.madisound.com Madisound - good Speaker Discussion forum

www.audioweb.com Reviews, equipment sales and audio data -  not much discussion.

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/ Reviews and audio data - good general site

http://www.soundstage.com/ Soundstage  - equipment details and links  

www.vacuumtube.com Vacuum Tube Valley e-zine, plus tube sales, FAQs etc

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/   Kits and DIY- very good constructors site

#Groups

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Newformgroup/  Newform ribbon speakers group

hjleak@yahoogroups.com Leak valve amps, tuners and speakers user group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TactAudioUsersGroup Digital amps and room measurements

#Classifieds UK

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/classads.html HiFi world classifieds

http://www.ebay.co.uk/  ebay UK - big online auction site

www.loot.com Loot, UK. Includes regular hifi classifieds

http://www.bblist.co.uk/ “Bazza’s Bazaar” - Good for buying and selling pro studio and audio-visual gear

#Classifieds US

http://www.ebay.com  ebay international - big online auction site

www.audiogon.com Great high-end ads and auctions

#Audio Sites - miscellaneous:

http://www.worldtubeaudio.com/  Links and features

http://www.audiogrid.com/arsl.html  Steve Ekblad audio Links

www.audioasylum.com Users group for high end and DIY audio gear. Good archives.

www.audioxpress.com Audio Express – Glass Audio, Speaker Builder etc.

http://audioweb.com/ The Audio Web - Equipment  links.

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/  Douglas Self - Helpful site includes many articles on balanced operation, amps etc

http://www.sound.au.com/index.html Elliott Sound Products - Helpful site includes articles on amps etc

http://www.qkits.com/ Quality Kits. Canadian site includes Velleman and Maplin.

www.musictechnology.com HiFi mods from ex-CJ engineer in Virginia

http://www.gasaudio.com/index.html Gas Ampzilla mods

http://user.tninet.se/~vhw129w/mt_audio_design/ MT Audio Design Swedish site for Quad ESL, tube amps, speakers. Excellent links for electrostatic speakers and HiFi sites.

http://www.korato.com/ Serbian tube and audio company.

http://www.roger-russell.com/aboutmc.htm  Mcintosh history

http://www.pcavtech.com/ PC soundcards - tests and data.

http://www.jukkatolonen.com/  Jukka Tolonen site. CD mods, amps and articles

http://members.aol.com/sbench101/ Steve Bench  Very good projects and schematics inc battery tube designs,  tube active crossover etc.

http://www.audiodesignguide.com/index.html Andrea Ciuffoli site with loads of links,  MOSfet + OTL amps, CD players, in-car audio etc.

www.diyzone.net Etude PCM1716 DAC kit - 96khz 24 bit. Rest of site in Chinese

http://www.apexjr.com/ Apex Jr - the affordable US parts company

www.decware.com Decware high performance audio. Amps, speakers, speaker unit repairs, classifieds, links, Decware forum.

http://www.wright-sound.com/ Wright Sound Company – amps, preamps

http://www.lalena.com/audio/ DIY audio projects – big and expanding site

http://www.beardaudio.com/ Chris Found – official Beard Audio Service site plus repairs and servicing in West London.

www.izzy-wizzy.com\audio  Stephen Robinson UK site

#Tutorials - basic theory

#Books:

Terman - Radio Engineering 1937

Terman - Radio Engineers Handbook, 1943

Terman - Radio  and Electronic Engineering 1950s

Morgan Jones – Valve Amplifiers ed. 1 2 and 3 (most recent in 2 volumes)

Bruce Rozenblit – Audio Reality

Norman Crowhurst - Various


Sites:

http://www.glass-ware.com/  Glass Ware – TubeCad, design software, downloads, 6N30 curves etc

http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/14178/  Good site on tube theory with excellent colour pics

http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/14180/  Good site on amplifier theory with excellent colour pics as above

http://www.anthemav.com/OldSitev1/frames/tubes2fr.html  Downloadable 'A taste of tubes'

http://www.tubecad.com/ Good site - Runs through the basics

http://www.radau5.ch/basics.html Runs through the basics

http://www.bonavolta.ch/hobby/en/audio/  Runs through the basics and gives schematics (preamps etc)

http://www.aikenamps.com/ Runs through the basics and more advanced tech talk – guitar amps etc.

http://www.triodeel.com/tlinks.htm#faq This has links to some useful FAQ's:

http://www.firebottle.com/ampage/bbs/amps/ Links to useful sites

http://firebottle.com/ampage/bbs/recread.cgi?sub=ga  Reading list of articles

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/tubes/bbs.html Click on FAQ

http://www.wingedc.com/  Svetlana’s new Russian site – used to have a FAQ

http://www.sonic.net/~ktstrain/Groundtutor.htm Kurt Strain's Grounding and Shielding tutorial

http://www.rane.com/library.html Rane - pro audio site with many helpful notes e.g. connecting units Rane Note 110

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/  Douglas Self - Helpful site includes many articles on balanced operation, amps etc

http://sound.westhost.com/articles.htm Various articles

http://www.webace.com.au/~electron/tubes/index.html  Tube stuff Dennis R. Grimwood

http://www.siteswithstyle.com/voltsecond/General_Load_Lines/General_LOAD_LINE.html  finding the load line

#Tube sites, DIY tube designs and parts

#Transformers

http://www.next-power.net/next-tube/articles.php3?sub_menu_item=99&article=articles/Veen/abstract_en.html Van der Veen output transformer  theory

 http://www.dialelectronicsweekly.com/product-7916779.html Audio transformers UK

http://www.transformersareus.co.uk/pricelist.htm Gold Seal, UK

http://www.oep.co.uk/oep.html  OEP Oxford Electrical Products, Whitney Tel:  (01993) 886200 – audio transformers 

http://www.sowter.co.uk/ Sowter Transformers

http://www.newmarket-transformers.co.uk/  Newmarket Transformers

http://www.ae-europe.nl/voedingstrafo.htm  AE Bandkern Dutch transformer company, similar to Tribute

http://www.audiomarketing.net/bartolucci  Bartolucci transformers

http://www.lundahl.se/index.html Lundahl Transformers

www.roehrentechnik.de Transformers for tubes, Germany

www.shinrock.com Transformers for tubes, Germany

www.audio-consulting.ch  Serge Schmidlin of Geneva – also do transformer pots.

http://www.skot.co.uk/page09.htm  Skot - mains trannies + high power UK

http://www.tribute-audio.nl/ Tribute in The Netherlands - a pair of SE 5K 100mA OPT's amorphous core cost about $400.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~valveamp/ SJS transformers

http://www.hammondmfg.com Hammond Transformers

http://www.antrimtransformers.com/  Antrim toroidal transformers including output transformers - Ireland

http://www.plitron.com/ Plitron Transformers

http://www.electra-print.com/  Electraprint Transformers

www.edcorusa.com Edcor Transformers

www.toroid.com  Toroid Corp, Maryland USA

http://www.icl.co.jp/audio/english/  Japanese R core transformers

http://www.jeack.com.au/~lucas/  Black Art Transformers (Australia)

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~macinc/linkpg6.htm  Australian links

http://www.tubehifi.com/  Antique Sound transformers

http://www.apgate.com/elec/company/co_8743.htm   http://www.danburyelectronics.co.uk   Danbury transformers UK

http://www.livinginthepast.demon.co.uk/xformer.html   Danbury transformers, including Maplins models

http://www.vvttransformers.co.uk/  VVT transformers UK – many valve transformers, and good prices

http://www.radfordaudio.co.uk/   Radford site

http://www.audes.ee/?PHPSESSID=f8982397b9af37af386fc02cd8e7b78b  Audes Estonia, transformers etc.

http://www.tnt-audio.com/  Audio review

#Tubes

http://www.duncanamps.com Duncan Munro: BEST NET SCHEMATICS LIST lots of TUBE DATA, plus SPICE models, schematics - a must-visit site ALSO Duncan amps has free downloadable software for simulating PSU designs of different types. It allows you to include parameters such as choke resistance, and inductance, capacitor ESR, and many different PSU configurations.

A link to their software page.... http://www.duncanamps.com/software.html

http://www.nj7p.org/Tube.php  Hereford tube database – excellent

http://home.netcom.com/~wa2ise/radios/penciltubes.html  Subminiature tubes database

http://radiomann.hp.infoseek.co.jp/HomePageVT/Radio_Tube_Europe2.html Rimlock tubes

http://members.lycos.nl/rimlockproject/  Rimlock tube project

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-12206/radio/teknik/tubetype.txt Explanation of prefixes and labelling of tubes

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-12206/radio/teknik/tube.txt Equivalants list for common tubes

www.tubes.ru Russian site with good datasheets

http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Russian/Russische_Roehren.htm  Russian tube details

http://www.next-power.net/next-tube/datasheets.php3  Russian tube details

http://www.klausmobile.narod.ru Nik Onoufriev, Moscow, Russia. Great site with excellent Russian tube data -curves etc. Site also in English

http://www.arrakis.es/~igapop/russianotes.htm Russian tube details

http://www.mclink.it/com/audiomatica/tubes/home.htm Tube data sheets (small number)

http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/frank/vs.html Frank’s Tube data sheets - excellent site

http://www.ginko.de/user/franz.hamberger/#tubes Tube data sheets - excellent site

http://www.nostalgiaair.org/Tubes/   Tube substitutions search engine, schematics, radio data

http://www.wps.com/archives/tube-datasheets/  Tube data sheets - excellent site + good search engine

http://home.earthlink.net/~aprilsound/catalog.html Tube kits and transformers. Amplifiers like Flesh+Blood 300B etc

http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/tom/przedwzm.htm   Great Polish site – loads of stuff

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/8701/hamlynx.htm  Bry’s Ham site - excellent tube data

http://www.firebottle.com/  Firebottle books etc

http://www.pmillett.com   Pete Millett - pentode tests, headphones etc

http://thunderstoneaudio.nav.to/  Thorsten Loesch’s new sites – good design details

http://www.the-planet.org/ Gary's great tube page - good Dynaco schematics plus much more

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1965/music_etc.html Bob Danielak's home page - schematics inc. PP2a3

http://www.atma-sphere.com Atma-sphere tube kits etc.

http://www.welbornelabs.com/ Welborne Labs - SE tube designs and audiophile parts

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0801/fleshandblood.htm  Steve Reichart Flesh and Blood 300B tube amp kit.

http://jewellerygalleria.com/catalog2/ Tube amps etc. inc S&B transformer volume control TVC

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/tubelust/  Pics of exotic tube amps

www.bottlehead.com Bottlehead – tube amp kits, tubes. Foreplay pre-amp. See also forum on audioasylum.com

http://www.hndme.com/ Handmade site.Tubes and schematics

http://www.curcioaudio.com/  Curcio DIY audio designs, including tube preamp kits and amplifier designs.

http://members.tripod.com/~gabevee/ Gabe Velez site. Tube details, circuits including Magnavox EL84

http://www.valvesunlimited.co.uk/  UK tube enthusiasts site

http://www.vac-amps.com/ VAC tube amps

http://www.wavelengthaudio.com/  Wavelength tube gear – very solidly made, Gemini is a star (2a3)

http://www.audionote.co.uk Audio Note UK, kits etc.

http://www.musicaldesign.com./  Tube preamps, Mosfet amps and mods for existing equipment

http://www.tubehifi.com/  Antique Sound Labs tube amps.

http://members.aol.com/sbench101 Steve Bench's Home Page, lots of DIY projects for tube audio

http://www.griffon.dircon.co.uk/   Griffon - Russ Sadd’s home page - lots of useful info

www.atma-sphere.com Atma-Sphere OTL tube amps

http://www.diyparadiso.com/  DIY Paradisio". Belgian site with plenty of components: tubes, transfos..

www.halfin.com  Belgian site with plenty of components: tubes, transfos.. Good prices

http://www.livinginthepast.demon.co.uk/  Trident valve amps and details of Danbury transformers (UK)

http://www.electronluv.com/ tube designs

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~tossie/   Interesting tube site contains amp list by tubes used

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/sunpress/index.html Sunrise Press

http://www.bvws.org.uk  National Vintage Communications Fair NVCF At the NEC Birmingham – excellent marketplace for old stuff – tube amps, parts, tubes etc.

Tube #Schematics

http://www.machmat.com/schema/index.htm Many schematics - also sell tubes

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/oheinone/valves/pvm-coding.html  Mullard codes

http://www.tubebuilder.com/schematic1.html Large number of schematics

http://www.triodeel.com/schindex.htm Large index of schematics - essential reading

http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/saints/668/primer/ J C Morrison Fi Primer – essential reading for PP

http://home.mira.net/~kiewavly/audio1.html Schematics including most Leak

www.lundahl.se/pdfs/claus_byrith/amplifier_30wpp.pdf Revised Mullard circuits

http://users.rcn.com/fiddler.interport//EICO.HTM  EICO site and circuits

http://www.arrakis.es/~igapop/index.htm Several circuits, some well-known (Mullards) some Russian

http://members.tripod.com/richard984/vacuum_tube_audio.htm  EL34, KT88, 300B, 845 and line/phono stages

http://www.tubehifi.com/Circuit/C_805.JPG  Amplifier using 805 tube SE

http://www.meta-gizmo.com/tri/interstage.html PP 6B4G Interstage Coupled Amplifier by Ralph Power

http://www.triodedick.com/  PP 6B4G from Triode Dick

http://www.angela.com/catalog/how-to/JE_Labs/PP_2A3/  Angela PP2a3

http://home.earthlink.net/~aprilsound/gallery.html  PP 2a3 Tube-O-Saurus Amplifier 5w Class A after Loesch/Morrison etc.

http://www.hndme.com/storeschematics4.html  Acro 6B4G etc

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1965/project.html  Bob Danielak’s PP 2a3

http://www.nutshellhifi.com/  PP 300b Amity amplifier by Lynn Ohlsen + Raven/Aurora preamps

http://hometown.aol.com/kevinc927/images/PPAmpInput.pdf   Kevin Carter’s designs, e.g. this PP input stage w. Lundahl iron

http://home.pacifier.com/~gpimm/ Gary Pimm’s page – interesting 2a3 circuit ideas, CCS designs

www.6moons.com  Review site

http://members.aol.com/ikschiffer/   Klaus Schiffer Tube site with Leak and several SE 2a3 schematics

http://www.vt52.com/  Tube circuits, tips and tube data. Very important DHT site

http://www.audio-genesis.com/Schematics.html Tube circuits inc. Ongaku and M7 copies

http://www.montagar.com/~patj/electroprojects.htm Tube circuits, battery charger etc.

http://www.supratek.biz/