You’ve must’ve seen your fair share of iPod docks but here’s one that combines compressed audio files to 60 year old technology…the tubes!
The Japanese manufacturer, Rockridge Sound, brings out a new iPod speaker dock boasting a three vacuum tubes per stereo channel. The VTS-384 delivers full analog sound out a pair of 2×2W (8ohm) speakers. And nothing is better than the analog sound from tubes. The kit comes with a remote for controlling the iPod, wire protectors for those tubes, and RCA and USB jacks for sourcing non-iPod music or connecting USB speakers.
The four EL84 tubes are push-pull and bearing two little double triodes. The two speakers are equipped with a light weight material cone and fixed onto a sturdy 5mm aluminium slate. According to Rockridge Sound, the work put in to the amplification allows the VTS-384 to deliver better quality sound that won’t’ve been affected by the integrated circuitry otherwise used.
Rolled out in Japan as from February 2007 at about 600€.