Eventually my arm was twisted and he sent me a copy of the book on Thursday the 26th of? The reason i know this exact date is because i still have his letters to me during that time. We discussed my then fave amplifier the Audio Note Ongaku and other bits. As best i can recall, this was around 1993 or so and Allen was looking for a new United States distributor of his The Tube Preamp CookBook. This was before modern discussion boards as many know them today, as Allen and i had threads and private messages on CompuServer's CEAudio board. Once the true religion was discovered, all solid-state production was finalized, the company name changed to Vacuum State Electronics and various items of tube equipment soon became available.' I entered into Allen's life during the early days of the Internet. A disturbing all-nighter was spent comparing the results of this modification to the very well reviewed Guru designed production solid-state PreA. Similar to the Audio Research SP3A, it was the first current hi-end tube preamp to receive the upgrades developed across years of solid-state mods. A Lux C元5 tube preamp arrived for repair and the owner was talked into having it modified. 'By 1976 he had formed Allen Wright Electronics and was manufacturing some really fringe solid-state audio equipment designed by local audio guru, Rowan McCombe. His first stereo system was jury rigged out of the audio stages of two old radios, single ended 6V6's with no feedback driving electro-dynamic speakers.' Eventually after a string of related jobs he landed a gig with Hewlett Packard as a service engineer. At the age of 12, according to his website, '.he was into one tube regenerative radio, and later misspent his high school years building and operating a fully home brewed SSB ham radio station (ZLIBBO) as well as exploding various pyrotechnic devices. Allen was a New Zealand born high-end audio designer who began his career on metal can military specification 6L6 tubes. The reason why i did not jump on the news is because he and i were good friends and to just rifle off some article would have been a disservice to this great man. B+ lines, so I am also a little surprised, looking at the SuperReg schematics in his Tube Preamp Cookbook, to see a large electrolytic across the output of the regulator. ![]() This is Allen Wright's constantly evolving top preamp, and is very similar in conception to his FVP5 though the latter is single-ended where the RTP is fully. Development of 10 Tube Integrated Preamp. Edition of Allen Wright's The Tube Preamplifier CookBook with grayish. States distributor of his The Tube Preamp CookBook. ![]() Allen Wright of Vacuum State A s many audiophiles know, Allen Wright of Vacuum State recently passed away.Īllen Wright of Vacuum State Article. ![]() The Tube Preamp Cookbook Allen Wright 7,4/10 5602votes
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