On my “can-I-do-that-scale”, these valve amplifies by the Serbian company NAT Audio are off the meter. literally. I don’t even know someone who knows someone who could come close to this degree of craftsmanship and beauty. These guys win. It’s too bad these images are hidden deep within their site on static pages…
The “Magma”.
The “Transmitter”.
The “Xenon”. That blue stuff you see in the tubes… yeah, that’s plasma.
I love the simplicity and classic styling of this DIY vacuum-tube, RIAA EQ curve, phono pre-amp. Bruce Heran via the DIY Audio Projects forums offers up exceptional build notes, pictures, and schematics of the build here. Admittedly I don’t know a thing about valve pre-amps and amps so I can only really comment on how much I like how it looks.
DIY Audio Projects – Hi-Fi Blog for DIY Audiophiles: Groovewatt Tube RIAA Phono Preamp.
This thing is fucking massive and awesome and scares me. From the DIY Audio projects photo-gallery. I might need to make a new category for this blog just for this thing. If there’s such a thing as a bong for smoking crack this is probably what it looks like.
