Well I found a place where Vintage meets the Raspberry Pi

14 Jun 2016

I love when an old idea fits in a new place. Kinda of gives us old timers hope <wink wink>. I found this on kickstarter where an analogue tube audio is married to a Raspberry Pi hat. Has anyone pledged to this? I would love to know the results.

Clem

PS another source: Raspberry Pi Hi-Fi tube amp just got better | Electronics Weekly

Picture from Kickstarter campaign.

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mcb1 over 8 years ago +2

It seems that they had some redesigning to overcome issues. It now sports a very large heatsink which almost dwarfs the valve. I always though the improved sound was not only because of the valve, but…
mconners over 8 years ago +1

Those tube amps never seem to die. A guy I work with has one on his desk, not that interfaces with a pi, but it sits between his computer and his headphones. My interest in tubes is the Nixie Tube clocks…

mcb1 over 8 years ago

It seems that they had some redesigning to overcome issues.
It now sports a very large heatsink which almost dwarfs the valve.

I always though the improved sound was not only because of the valve, but the transformer on the output.
This ensured that harmonics got knocked.

Mark
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mconners over 8 years ago

Those tube amps never seem to die. A guy I work with has one on his desk, not that interfaces with a pi, but it sits between his computer and his headphones.

My interest in tubes is the Nixie Tube clocks. I would love to build one.

Mike
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