Is This The Future of Vacuum Tubes?
Larry Deniston | Published on 1/31/2015
This is very exciting: A few days ago, at the 2015 National Association of Music Merchants show in Southern California (NAMM) , Korg and Noritake introduced the Nutube, a new miniaturized and high performance vacuum tube. It is said to offer improved reliability and efficiency, while still generating the same rich harmonics which vacuum tubes are known for. If this revolutionary design proves as ingenious as it looks, and sounds similar or better than the hot, inefficient tubes we’ve been using in our electronics for decades, this could be the biggest, game-changing audio news in a long time. Read more, here.