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

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:29:52 -0600

If you look around his site, you'll see he is also quite a knowledgeable guy
about tube-testers. He uses and also collects them, and isn't hesitant to
debunk different sacred-cow brand-names and set the newbies straight about
the value of tube testing in general!

72,
Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Atchley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:33 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] A very good site on "Vintage Electronics" lessons

> 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
>
> DX begins at the noise floor!
> Merced, Central California
> 37.18N  120.29W  CM97sh
>
>
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