Gear-obsessive Joe Bonamassa has acquired guitars, amps, and pedals through some very strange means – but acquiring an amp ...

In this project, beautiful Port Orford Cedar logs are transformed on the lathe into a unique, tiered 2.1 speaker system. The accent and faceplate are crafted from Olive wood and finished with multiple ...

For many guitar players, their first amp is a predictable choice. Maybe it was an affordable Marshall or Fender five-watt ...

The FiiO Warmer R2R arrived with a lot going for it on paper. Tubes. VU meters. An in-house R2R module. Three bell rings for audiophile catnip. At US$349/€379, it looked the part. My January review ...

Although the RTL-SDR is cheap, accessible, and capable enough for many projects, it does have some important limitations. In ...

Abstract: D-band high speed communication applications require an amplifier with broad bandwidth and high power. The vacuum high-power amplifiers, however, exhibit a limitation in bandwidth, while ...

The panel tells the whole story before they touch a single wire.

With hundreds of headphones, IEMs, DACs, and amps on display, CanJam NYC 2026 made one thing clear: a few standout designs ...

Abstract: Development of a 0.34THz traveling-wave tube is described in this paper. This device consists of folded waveguide slow wave structure with modified circular bends, Pierce-style electron gun, ...

The Rotel Michi X3 Series 2 doesn’t punish me for any of it. It also hits harder than you might expect from a machine so ...

When building a radio transmitter, unless it’s a very small one indeed, there’s a need for an amplifier before the antenna.

Modelling doesn't need to be expensive or complicated, and Blackstar has just delivered the first proof for 2026 ...