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| | ~ Tungsten Amps ~ Chasing tone is in Adam Palow's blood. As a child, he looked for sound and music in nearly everything around him. In his late teens, he stumbled upon a vintage 5 watt, Class A tube amplifier, and it changed his life. He was immediately drawn to the warmth and breakup of that single 6V6 pumping through a miniscule 8" Alnico speaker. That sparked a lifelong obsession and pursuit of good tones, a thirst which has yet to be quenched.
Living in California at the time, Adam had access to a multitude of blackface amplifiers and began to acquire them whenever he could. As it became apparent that these amps would require maintenance, Adam began learning about what made these amps work and how to repair and modify them.
 | Not too long after that, Adam became involved with Hammond organ repairs and restoration, and under the tutelage of master Hammond technician, Bob Schleicher, he spent five years learning everything about vintage Hammond organs. That knowledge and experience, coupled with his own research and experimentation with classic amp designs was the genesis of Tungsten Amplification. Adam has been designing and building Tungsten amplifiers for several years now, and he is constantly looking for new designs to add to the Tungsten line and to refine his existing models. | | |
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Tungsten Crema Wheat
The Crema Wheat is the newest addition to the Tungsten Amplification lineup, and is a melding of some of the great vintage low watt designs, all coming together in one outstanding package to create a special flavored 112 combo that fits in-between some of the other designs... |  |
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Tungsten Blue Point The Tungsten Blue Point is a new offering that combines the best elements from late 1950's designs into "the greatest amp that never was". The amp has two channels (which can be jumped), common Bass, Treble and Presence knobs, and is powered by a trio of custom Mercury Magnetics transformers and loaded with the best vintage spec components available... |  |
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Tungsten Cortez
The Tungsten Cortez is based on the classic 5E3 design, putting out 12 watts with a pair of 6V6 tubes and 18 watts with 6L6 power tubes. It has a single Tone knob, with Bright and Normal Volume controls, four inputs and comes standard with a custom designed 12" Weber T12Q Alnico speaker and Mercury Magnetics transformers. It also includes a pair of 12AX7 preamp tubes and 5Y3 rectifier, and because this amp is cathode biased, swapping power tubes is just a matter of plugging them in. No re-biasing is ever necessary... |  |
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Tungsten Mosaic
The Tungsten Mosaic amplifier is based on the 5F1 design, delivering 5 watts with a 6V6 and 9 watts with a 6L6 power tube. It has a single Volume knob, two inputs and comes standard with either an 8" or 12" Weber T12Q speaker and Mercury Magnetics transformers... |  |
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Tungsten T-35
The Tungsten T-35 series amplifier is based on the classic 35 watt, fixed bias designs of the late 1950's, consisting of a 12AY7 and two 12AX7 preamp tubes, a pair of 6L6GC power tubes and a 5U4GB rectifier... |  |
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