Actually, this Fatman is a hybrid but, looks cool…
…and it’s wireless…with a VU meter! iPod, old-school chic.
Another new edition to the range for 2010, the Wi-Tube is compact and sexy, but still packs a solid punch. Producing 28W per channel this is no lightweight when it comes to power. Utilising a radical new hybrid valve design, the basis of which was first suggested in a theoretical paper 50 years ago, it just sings with quality… and looks stunning.
Coupled with the FatDock for wireless connectivity. One may also use a wired connection on the RCA pair on the back of the dock direct into the amplifier if preferred.
I’m guessing that this is the same company that made studio compressors and the like a few years back. Good stuff too. So, if you have a burning need to send your iPod signal wireless through some tubes…may be the way to go.
$599.00 available in May.
Going retro, that’s been a trend in guitar amps for a few years. Small, all-tube amps that capture the vintage mojo. For example, take a look at the new Peavey Valveking Royal 8…
The thing is though, you got to sell retro to the kids and that requires some slick wordsmithing…
Perfect for rehearsing, the Royal 8 combo amp features the simple interface of a single tone control, dual inputs, and master volume and gain controls that can be adjusted for either class A “breakup” power amp tones achieved by reducing the gain and increasing the master volume, or preamp distortion, which you can access by reducing the master volume and cranking the gain.
“simple interface”… now, that tickles me!
Take a look at the “interface” on this old Gibson…
The idea behind the Neuhaus Labs T-2 is to make your computer sound nice.
First, by extracting only the digital music files in your computer. When you connect your T-2 Amplifier to your computer via USB, you are bypassing the sound card on your computer. We simply take the pure unaltered digital files from your computers and send it directly to our amp. The T-2 Amplifier has a built in Digital to Analog Converter (DAC). A digital-to-analog converter, or DAC, converts digital information — 0’s and 1’s — into analog music signals. When you connect computer speakers normally, they attach to your sound out or headphone plug. This type of connection produces terrible sound quality because uses the computer’s sound card, which is, again, not meant to produce quality sounding music.
So, for instance, you could take your Canned Heat MP3s, which were originally recorded analog then, at some point, “converted” to digital files then, compressed in to MP3 format hence, losing a good deal of the sonic in formation then…convert that information back to analog…and run them through some tubes thus, making them all warm, fuzzy and lovable and pump them through your computer monitors.
Make sense? If so, the T-2 at $795.00 may be just the ticket.
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