Vacuum Tubes in 2025 – Not Made in America

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Vacuum Tubes in 2025 – Not Made in America As of 2025, the biggest suppliers of vacuum tubes (new production) are a small group of manufacturers — nearly all based in Russia, China, and Slovakia — with a few large retail distributors worldwide. Here’s a breakdown: Top Vacuum Tube Manufacturers 🇷🇺 Reflector (Saratov, Russia) – … Read more

Deep Dive into Dumble’s Crystalline Lattice

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Dumble’s Crystalline Lattice Explore deeply howard dumble, dumble amplifiers, design of circuit to have one rail that is voltage-reduced by series resistors, such that bigger loads occur earlier in the supply; how voltage hits by bigger loads also consequently pull-down lower-voltage stages earlier in the signal path thru amp. dig deeply into semiconductor physics RE … Read more

SHIFT HAPPENS – vlog of 21yo truckerette

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SHIFT HAPPENS – vlog of 21yo truckerette West Bound and Down… Hopefully some meaningful content rolls about; meanwhile, here is a dumb-luck, first-person, unadulterated, unskewed view of America from its interstates. Weather patterns. Condition of roadways, facilities. Americana from the road.

Why It’s “Impossible” To Manufacture In America

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Why It’s “Impossible” To Manufacture In America …all this and yet I know a small company that sent ten working examples of finished components to several Chinese companies. A few responded. Zero were able to precisley duplicate the working, simple component which was made of metal. MADE IN CHINA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SABOTAGE TRAP … Read more

Fourer Transform Speaker – DSP and Amp per Driver – 20-driver speakers

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Fourer Transform Speaker – DSP and Amp per Driver “When it reaches 88 decibels, it will take you back in time.” This feels something like when Cardas started…the Fibonacci approach, but here applied to DSP, amps, drivers. This is Very Smart. It removes drivers’ need to also amplify more frequency-distant signals, which are often swamped … Read more

Paul Reed Smith’s Vintage STRAT Shootout Goes OFF THE RAILS

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Paul Reed Smith’s Vintage STRAT Shootout Goes OFF THE RAILS Paul Reed Smith’s Vintage Strat Shootout Goes OFF THE RAILS Expert Analysis: Tone Factors Explored Here’s a refined breakdown of how pickups, magnetics, winding techniques, and guitar bodies influence the tone—paired with insights from the shootout video and broader research: 1. Pickup Construction: Coils & … Read more

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