Nutube As Regular Tubes Replacement? Options

[KenA]

Not a long ago this german company made an amp named BluAmp in colab with the guitarrist Thomas Blug

http://www.bluguitar.com/AMP1.html

Now Vox is bringing this nano tube tech with MV50 series amps

http://www.voxamps.com/MV50

ref. http://korgnutube.com/en/

Interesting at least. Not really new. The overdriven sounds not that good I think.

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This post has been edited by KenA: Jan 18 2017, 12:04 AM

[Mertay]

I remember the time when the news was out, can't remember the date but seems it took a while for them to implement on products. I think they also can't be changed like regular tubes (soldered on the board) but such a long lifespan might not make this a problem.

There are still too few products to say much but atleast they sound better than modern capasitors used on pedals/amps. The potential seems cool, hopefully we'll see more examples to have a better opinion in time.

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[Todd Simpson]

Looks cute There are tons of these types of little amps now. They all look fun

Todd

Not a long ago this german company made an amp named BluAmp in colab with the guitarrist Thomas Blug

http://www.bluguitar.com/AMP1.html

Now Vox is bringing this nano tube tech with MV50 series amps

http://www.voxamps.com/MV50

ref. http://korgnutube.com/en/

Interesting at least. Not really new. The overdriven sounds not that good I think.

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[Rammikin]

Now Vox is bringing this nano tube tech with MV50 series amps

Since it's nutube, does that mean the mv50 is battery powered?

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[KenA]

Since it's nutube, does that mean the mv50 is battery powered?

Good question. Would be cool to be at least USB powered?
Plus, it appears to be only pre-amp (nu)tube ... maybe they will create a nutube for power amp section as well?!?!

Actually invented by 2 companies: Korg and Noritake Co.
http://www.korg.com/in/news/2015/012212/

.... I think they also can't be changed like regular tubes (soldered on the board) but such a long lifespan might not make this a problem. ...

With regular 12AX7s there are still more possibilities soundwise, because we can have different 12AX7s on slots V1, V2, V3, ... I mean: long plate, short plate, etc . As always, pros and cons! but nice to see that even tubes can have a facelift.

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This post has been edited by KenA: Jan 19 2017, 10:14 AM

[Mertay]

Side note I haven't heard of many class-d type poweramp, so as a concept we can say its very new tech. . I guess depending on the market new models can be introduced, they probably played safe maybe thinking of synth.s too.

And yeah as far as I know tube today are only used for musical equipment, glad although this limitation there is still enough interest for investment.

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