[Boatanchors] A very good site on "Vintage Electronics" lessons

[Philip Atchley]

Hi all,
I have run across a very good site for some lessons and insights into how
vintage electronic equipment was designed and marketed "way back when".
This site is particularly devoted to "Vintage Guitar Amplifiers" and
"debunks" such things as "special capacitors for tone" etc and explains how
"EVERYTHING" right down to capacitor selection and tube sockets boiled down
to, "how cheaply can we make it and still sell it".  The same "rules"
applied whether you were marketing a radio or an instrument amplifier.

I suggest that anyone who has any interest at all in old tube equipment of
any genre (not just guitar amps) should read ALL the lessons in turn as it
has some pretty good history there (I downloaded all of them to a folder for
reading at my leisure).

While the site is operated by a gentleman who makes and sells "boutique"
guitar amplifiers, he pulls NO punches in debunking many of the "audiophool
myths" surrounding components.

Also of interest are the many "vintage" ads scattered throughout the site.

Go to

http://www.tone-lizard.com/LESSON_INDEX.htm

73 from the "Beaconeers Lair".
Phil, KO6BB

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