Vintage iPod Tube Amp/Charger
This black stylish iPod amplifier/charger allows you to enjoy your playlists with the “warmth and richness only a vintage tube amplifier can provide”.
You’ll be amazed at how time-proven, pre-amp tube circuitry can reveal the subtle detail of brushes on a snare drum, or the sonic thunder of a Fender Precision Bass striking that low ‘E’ — as when the Funk Brothers’ James Jamerson sets the groove for Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”. Aural details that have been lost as MP3 files are compressed for storage and transmission, dramatically re-emerge through this 25 watts RMS per channel, all-tube pre-amp system.
Rugged steel chassis finished in gloss piano black includes massive power transformer, and 3 multi-plate vacuum tubes protected in a removable, ventilated cage. Optional stereo speakers in matching gloss black feature efficient ported Bass-Reflex design, 3/4” tweeters, and robust 4” woofers. Includes cradle inserts for all iPods (except Shuffle), 2 additional source inputs, S-video and RCA video outputs, 2 pair of gold-plated speaker terminals, and remote.
The Vintage iPod Tube Amp/Charger ($799) is available from Herrington.
10 comments for “Vintage iPod Tube Amp/Charger” »
4 January 2008 at 2:44 pm
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5 January 2008 at 11:27 am
[...] Here’s a great design if you dare to be different. The Vintage iPod Tube Amp/Charger has the cool somewhat steampunk/Sci-Fi look of a mad scientists lair. According to the manufacturer, you ca enjoy your playlists with the “warmth and richness only a vintage tube amplifier can provide”. I don’t know about that, but I love the design. Many musicians believe that the harmonic richness and the pure tone of tube-based circuitry can’t be beat. That’s their thinking with this device. Just plug your iPod into the Vintage Amplifier/Charger, sit back with the included remote, and browse through your playlists. They claim that audio details that have been lost in MP3 files through compression, dramatically re-emerge through the 25 watts RMS per channel, all-tube pre-amp system. It will cost you a hefty $800 to find out if they are right. No doubt some of us don’t mind missing out on the differences we can’t hear anyway, at that price. [Herrington] VIA [Geek Alerts] [...]
6 January 2008 at 6:36 am
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9 January 2008 at 5:58 pm
All this for lossy mp3’s?
10 January 2008 at 1:36 am
“Aural details that have been lost as MP3 files are compressed for storage and transmission, dramatically re-emerge through this 25 watts RMS per channel, all-tube pre-amp system.” No they don’t. Any data lost to the compression process is gone into the bitbucket forever and ever and no amount of audiophile tomfoolery will ever bring them back. Yes, tube amps do sound different than solid state but that’s because they’re hooked to a musical instrument and not an mp3 player. It is awful pretty though.
10 January 2008 at 4:17 pm
@jbrader, @Craig Stern
Good thing iPods can play back non-lossy file formats as well.
27 November 2008 at 6:21 am
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6 January 2009 at 12:20 am
You can choose the quality of sound on itunes… when you put a cd onto the computer (and therefore the iPod) in the options you can go with default ok 128kbps and I think you can go down to outright junk sound, or all the way up to cd quality. Then again, it uses a lot more memory. I think it’s worth it, as I run a 60gig iPod; the little ones won’t be able to hold many songs in high quality sound.
21 November 2009 at 6:39 am
It looks amazing! and I bet it sounds great. There are some more tube amplifiers, some with iPod docks reviewed here if anyone is interested:
http://www.tubeamplifierreviews.com
8 December 2009 at 7:53 pm
One word for these polemic comments: FLAC
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