HAND WIRED VACUUM TUBE AMPLIFIERS

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
ATOM	Grimm, Adam B.	1322 Gertrude Street San Diego CA 92110	Hand-wired vacuum tube amplifiers for musical instruments;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A power supply for a guitar amplifier and the guitar amplifier and method of operating the guitar amplifier. The power supply includes an alternating current power input having a secondary winding and a filament winding, an output and a first vacuum tube rectifier coupled between the secondary winding of the power input and the output for rectifying the alternating current at the power input. At least a second rectifier is provided which is selectively couplable in parallel with the first vacuum tube rectifier. The at least one second rectifier can be a vacuum tube rectifier with each of the first and second rectifiers having a cathode continually energized by the filament winding, a solid state rectifier or both. The output amplifier has an output transformer having a primary winding with a center tap and with a first pair of vacuum tube amplifiers having their cathodes being coupled together and their plates coupled to the primary winding on opposite sides of the center tap. At least a second pair of vacuum tube amplifiers is provided having their cathodes coupled together and their plates being coupled to the primary winding on opposite sides of the center tap. A selector switch selectively causes at least one pair of the first pair of vacuum tube amplifiers and the at least a second pair of vacuum tube amplifiers to be operational and concurrently causes at least a selected one of the first vacuum tube rectifier and the at least a second rectifier to be operational corresponding to the selected at least one pair of vacuum tube amplifiers and the at least a second pair of vacuum tube amplifiers selected.