Any tubes currently manufactured in the US, Japan or Germany?
Just curious. This looks interesting, I wonder if we may see something like this in the future
The NuTube has been around for a while. It was developed to provide a way to add low order harmonic distortion for Korg’s synthesizers. It is somewhat popular in the DIY community and their are a number of designs available including one from Nelson Pass. The big disadvantage of this product is that it is extremely microphonic, but it does do a nice job generating second order harmonics. |
Those Korg tubes (chips?) look very interesting based on their long life, durability, and low power requirements (less than 2% of a conventional tube). It seems they could be considered as a catalyst for new, quieter tube designs using smaller power supplies. Would it even be possible for them to be retrofitted as a drop in replacement for conventional vacuum tubes? I would be curious to hear from a designer who has a long history using conventional vacuum tubes such as Ralph at Atma-Sphere. |
Company in Valencia, Spain, ATM Audio, makes class D amps (kind of like Nord, Rouge, Apollon, etc.) that uses the korg unit. https://atm-audio.com/class-d-amplifier/ https://atm-audio.com/input-buffer-for-hypex-and-purifi-audio-with-triode-korg-nutube/ |
