Has anybody ever used a small tube amplifier?

[shortylickens]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ADR2DTG/ref=psdc_13880161_t1_B00A2QKTLW

And if so, how did you like it?

 

[pcgeek11]

Nothing beats a tube powered amplifier for sound quality and warmth of sound.

What you have linked is a hybrid amplifier that combines both tube and transistor technologies.

https://www.cnet.com/news/what-sounds-better-tube-or-solid-state-electronics/

http://www.electronicdesign.com/blog/tubes-are-still-better-transistors-audio-amplifiers

http://blog.thetubestore.com/tube-vs-solid-state-why-do-tubes-sound-better/

 

[shortylickens]

Nothing beats a tube powered amplifier for sound quality and warmth of sound.

What you have linked is a hybrid amplifier that combines both tube and transistor technologies.

https://www.cnet.com/news/what-sounds-better-tube-or-solid-state-electronics/

http://www.electronicdesign.com/blog/tubes-are-still-better-transistors-audio-amplifiers

http://blog.thetubestore.com/tube-vs-solid-state-why-do-tubes-sound-better/

This is gonna make me sound like a jackass but....
I already knew that.

Helped my father fix a couple tube and transistor receivers when growing up.
Had Electronics 1,2, and 3 in high school. And Digital electronics. And president of the electronics clubs.
I went to Nuke school in the Navy as an electronics technician. (Failed).
Went to advanced electronics school later.
Worked at a comm station in Iceland for two years fixing everything between VLF and Microwave, as well as fiber optics and multiplexers.
Worked on air control tower communications at an experimental weapons base stateside.
Fixed photolithography equipment at Hynix.
And I occasionally jerk it to Futurama.

ANYWAYS:
I have never owner or used a small tube headphone amp and was wondering if anybody here had done so.

 

[WhiteNoise]

I've listened to that bravo amp. It was fine. The one I listened to was upgraded a bit though.

I have owned two Project Embers by Garage1217. Very amazing little tube hybrid amp there.

I also have two proper tube amps which both sound amazing. I'm a huge tube amp fan!

 

[pcgeek11]

This is gonna make me sound like a jackass but....
I already knew that.

Helped my father fix a couple tube and transistor receivers when growing up.
Had Electronics 1,2, and 3 in high school. And Digital electronics. And president of the electronics clubs.
I went to Nuke school in the Navy as an electronics technician. (Failed).
Went to advanced electronics school later.
Worked at a comm station in Iceland for two years fixing everything between VLF and Microwave, as well as fiber optics and multiplexers.
Worked on air control tower communications at an experimental weapons base stateside.
Fixed photolithography equipment at Hynix.
And I occasionally jerk it to Futurama.

ANYWAYS:
I have never owner or used a small tube headphone amp and was wondering if anybody here had done so.

"I went to Nuke school in the Navy as an electronics technician. (Failed)."

So you could be classified as Nuclear Waste.

I'm a bit older and used to teach vacuum tubes and amplifiers...

 

[Crotulus]

I had a Pro-Ject Tubebox phono amp in my system for quite a while. I would imagine it's basically doing the same thing as a headphone amp. The only real difference is this phono amp separated the channels using two tubes versus the one in the amp listed above (and applying the RIAA curve for records).

It had a pretty good sound until it started blowing out the right channel a bit too often for my liking. Really need to open it up to figure out why it was killing tubes. Switched to a solid state amp to avoid that issue in the future.

 

[Oyeve]

It really depends on your source. If you are gonna connect your phone to it and listen to mp3s then it won't yield anything significant and will just be a "niche" device. If you are gonna hook up a guitar to it then you may enjoy the "warmer" sound (I do). I still use on occasion and old analog tube reel2reel tape system. My father recorded some great tracks around 50 years ago and I still enjoy them to this day.