Aerial amplifiers can be very useful if your signal reception is not quite up to scratch. They are used to improve the performance of your T.V. or radio equipment. If your T.V. picture is 'grainy' or in the...
Chinese valve or tube amplifiers - are they any good? Well, I've tried out 2 of them from Hong Kong and the answer in a nutshell is they are absolutely brilliant and easily beat much more expensive transisitor...
A question I hear a lot. Do I need to have my Valve amplifier biased? So What is Bias. Well to put it simply the bias of a Valve amp is set by adjusting the grid voltages to set the idle current of the output...
A lot of people are confused over wattage ratings and how loud an amp or speakers will sound. Watts and their loudness are not linear, in other words a rating of 10 watts is not ten times louder than 1 watt....
Matching Amplifers To Speakers When you're matching a Power Amp to a PA Speaker, a good rule of thumb is to pick an amplifier that can deliver power equal to twice the speaker's continuous IEC power rating....
Buying your first guitar for yourself or your kids? This hopefully will be a small aide to help you through the pitfalls of buying your first electric guitar, and set you on the road to one of the most...
Quad 33/303 Amplifier General These amplifiers were made from 1967 and had a production run of about 15 years. They were one of the best amplifiers around at that time for both design and technical...
If you are thinking about purchasing a vintage Akai tape recorder I though a few tips on things to look out for /common faults might be useful. Akai recorders were the very top end of the domestic market in...
Read this carefully if you are tempted to buy these shiny speakers. The Matrix website that gives the technical details for these speakers (and suggests that thay have a retail value of $3998 a pair) is part...