Computer Audio

Source: Kids Prefer Cheese

Loyal reader Gerardo asks, "If you hadn't made the jump to digital music beyond CDs, how would you go about doing it? Let me start by saying that I'm an analog guy. I use a home-made 2 watt vacuum tube amp. I ...
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Answer Man: Rockwells have worked in TV for six decades

Source: Belleville News-Democrat

When I recently issued an urgent request for pictures of WTVI-TV, I didn't hold much hope. The old UHF station had studios in Belleville for only a year or so before it became KTVI in St. Louis -- and that was 60 years ago. Calls to ...
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Simple staycation ideas can make Memorial Day memorable

Source: WBTV 3 Charlotte NC

Not everyone can get away this Memorial Day weekend, but staycations aren't all that bad. (Source: BP) A nightly resort fee adds up for a traveler who books a Las Vegas hotel for almost a month. Should th ...
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Neato XV-21 Pet & Allergy Automatic Vacuum Cleaner

Source: Ecoustics

I have allergies. I also have pets. And right now, it's shedding season. All of that shedding leads to a lot more sneezing than usual, which leads to a lot more vacuuming. But even an obsessive neat freak like me doe ...
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Nanoscale vacuum transistors – way cool, but still not as pretty as a glowing 12AU6

Source: Watts Up With That

The venerable 12AU6 vacuum tube, still in use by audiophiles today – I used many like this in my youth From AAAS, news of a super tiny vacuum-tube transistor hybrid that can operate up to .46 TERAHertz (thats 460,000 megahertz or 460 gigahertz): Pe ...
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NASA develops speedy vacuum tube prototype for computers in space

Source: The Verge

While semiconductors replaced vacuum tubes as the go-to way to conduct electrical current in our gadgets decades ago, scientists are looking to bring them back for computers used in space. The fact that semiconductors are ...
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Building an x-ray machine and letting everything go to your head

Source: hack a day

It’s not every day one of the builds on Hackaday gets picked up by a big-name publication, and it’s even rarer to see a Hackaday contributor grace the pages of an actual print magazine. Such is the case with [Adam Munich] a ...
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Boffins develop .46 Terahertz “nano vacuum tube”

Source: The Register

Researchers from NASA and Korea’s National Nanofab Center have cooked up nanoscale vacuum tubes, potentially bringing some of the earliest digital devices back into the mainstream of technology. As detailed in a new paper from Appli ...
Full article at: The Register  More like this  3 days ago, 8:37pm CDT

Return of the Vacuum Tube

Source: Slashdot

Most expensive, maybe, but best? Not if your goal is a transparent amplifier: one that takes an input, and reproduces that output as accurately as possible with a higher amplitude. Valves suck at this. An ...
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