--- product_id: 6428585 title: "Vacuum Tube Amplifier Basics" price: "€ 7.95" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/6428585-vacuum-tube-amplifier-basics store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Vacuum Tube Amplifier Basics **Price:** € 7.95 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Vacuum Tube Amplifier Basics - **How much does it cost?** € 7.95 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/6428585-vacuum-tube-amplifier-basics) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description There is a growing number of audio enthusiasts and hobbyist interested in creating their own vacuum tube amplifiers. If one has the necessary technical information, high quality tube amplifiers can be assembled. Although it is true that accurately calculating electronic circuits can involve complicated formulas, for the electronic hobbyist it is not necessary to perform at the level of an electrical engineer. With some basic knowledge, it is possible for the hobbyist to design and build vacuum tube audio amplifiers that perform well. For the novice not versed in electronics, several sections of the book cover electronic basics that pertain to vacuum tube circuits. Includes Ohms law, voltage, current, power and watts. Explains capacitors, series circuits, parallel circuits, voltage dividers, reading circuit drawings plus other related information. Principles of vacuum tube operation voltage amplifiers and power output are explained. Includes function of grids, effect of tube capacitance, tube resistance, heat dissipation, bias, miller effect and calculating voltage gain. A table of component values for the popular 12AX7 in various operating parameters simplifies pre-amplifier stage design. Power supply sections cover vacuum tube and solid state rectifier conversion of AC to DC and DC filtering. Amplifier design example takes you through the steps of designing a single ended ten watt amplifier with volume and tone controls. Working with electronics and vacuum tube circuits requires some math. Circuit calculations in this book use various forms of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Formulas are all solvable using a standard 12 digit calculator (requires a square root key). Calculations are presented with examples. Project layout circuits include a line amplifier with 25db gain, triode balanced-unbalanced input stage, tone control stage, turntable pre-amplifier, 6V6SE Class A stereo amplifier, 6V6SE Class A monoblock amplifier, 30 watt monoblock amplifier and a basic 5 watt guitar amplifier. The 30 watt monoblock amplifier is designed for tube rolling using various type output tubes. Review: If you are wanting to build an Audio Tube Amp for your Stereo, this is the book!! - Finally, I found it, a book on building tube amplifiers and you do not need an advance degree in Calculus to understand the theory. Very clearly written in plain English and easy to understand. Having worked as an electronic tech for the past 30 years, I can read and understand complex schematic. This book is fantastically easy to understand and if you are afraid of electrical schematics, the author has provide detail drawing of how the circuit is layout with component by component placement. I have purchased several other books that spent page after page with charts telling me how a tube or a transistor will perform. That stuff puts me to sleep and those books are in a pile labelled I'll will never read them. This book is totally different and so easy to understand. Another excellent thing about this book is, if the author is explaining how a portion of a circuit works, the drawing he is referring to is located in the same paragraph and not on the next page!! I really enjoyed reading this book and hopefully you will too. Review: Excellent, mid / intermediate DIY amp builder resource. - Well written and concise, hobbyist DIY amp builders will learn something here. Supplement with other online video resources to nail down critical concepts and build your confidence to build a great tube amp - great stepping stone for beginner to intermediate level electronics enthusiasts with some amp building experience. Two thumbs up! Basics? Well, perhaps, but plenty of good material here to reinforce what you think you may already know. You know who you are! EDIT: INVEST in this book, learn about tube amp power supplies and tube amplification stages, then actually BUILD an amp... that's where all of the excellent information in this book is intended to take you. Understand the components, the circuits, the building blocks and then build a really great tube amp. This book will actually get you there, if you are willing to put in the work. Worth every penny. Lots of illustrations of key concepts, along with circuits and wiring diagrams of some excellent HIFI and guitar amps. It has become my most trusted reference. Understand it. Build it. Love it! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #765,413 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 577 Reviews | ## Images ![Vacuum Tube Amplifier Basics - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61CAHTbLXmL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you are wanting to build an Audio Tube Amp for your Stereo, this is the book!! *by R***R on April 26, 2023* Finally, I found it, a book on building tube amplifiers and you do not need an advance degree in Calculus to understand the theory. Very clearly written in plain English and easy to understand. Having worked as an electronic tech for the past 30 years, I can read and understand complex schematic. This book is fantastically easy to understand and if you are afraid of electrical schematics, the author has provide detail drawing of how the circuit is layout with component by component placement. I have purchased several other books that spent page after page with charts telling me how a tube or a transistor will perform. That stuff puts me to sleep and those books are in a pile labelled I'll will never read them. This book is totally different and so easy to understand. Another excellent thing about this book is, if the author is explaining how a portion of a circuit works, the drawing he is referring to is located in the same paragraph and not on the next page!! I really enjoyed reading this book and hopefully you will too. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent, mid / intermediate DIY amp builder resource. *by F***C on February 11, 2018* Well written and concise, hobbyist DIY amp builders will learn something here. Supplement with other online video resources to nail down critical concepts and build your confidence to build a great tube amp - great stepping stone for beginner to intermediate level electronics enthusiasts with some amp building experience. Two thumbs up! Basics? Well, perhaps, but plenty of good material here to reinforce what you think you may already know. You know who you are! EDIT: INVEST in this book, learn about tube amp power supplies and tube amplification stages, then actually BUILD an amp... that's where all of the excellent information in this book is intended to take you. Understand the components, the circuits, the building blocks and then build a really great tube amp. This book will actually get you there, if you are willing to put in the work. Worth every penny. Lots of illustrations of key concepts, along with circuits and wiring diagrams of some excellent HIFI and guitar amps. It has become my most trusted reference. Understand it. Build it. Love it! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What the title says *by T***M on March 10, 2024* This is a good book for someone who has little knowledge of electric circuits and no knowledge of how tubes do what they do. I did not need the basic electricity information but the tube information is kept deliberately simple so as to not overwhelm the reader. I now know a lot more about tube circuits and how they work. I can now follow the signal path through a wiring diagram. There is also a section on basic amplifier construction. I would recommend Vacuum Tube Amplifier Basics to anyone wishing to learn a little bit about the nuts and bolts of these devices. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/6428585-vacuum-tube-amplifier-basics](https://www.desertcart.be/products/6428585-vacuum-tube-amplifier-basics) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-06-24*