About

This website is a brochure site that I am using to introduce my product, the Model One audio amplifier. People that appreciate music and the quality of its electronic reproduction, I hope will find this amplifier to their liking

It’s one of my priorities that, if you have never been around vacuum tubes making music, once you leave this site, you leave with an interest and enthusiasm for audio tubes. It would give me such pleasure and a sense of accomplishment, that if this site exposes you to the alternate world of thermionic emissions, you too will become more of a devotee to the music.

But to become a real devotee, you need to listen, listen and listen some more. Not just to tube audio circuits or amplifiers, but to all the manifestations of all audio circuits out there. Be it a nine transistor radio from the 60’s tuned to AM radio you need to listen; to solid state, class D amplifiers, class A/B push-pull amplifiers, solid state receivers, whatever happens to float your boat. The purpose is to train your ear to the astounding number of audio systems out there that play a multitude of music. Without experience in listening to audio systems and the music they play; you’ll never learn the type system you gravitate to and more importantly, the genres of music you like.

For me, my audio lessons were learned long ago while listening to my fathers stereo. I was so excited about the clarity and loudness of the music. He had a pair of Dynaco Mark III amplifiers connected to a HeathKit preamp, with a Weathers turntable as the source and the amplifier outputs ran through a University console speaker. I had choice to listen to the albums I wanted to listen to and at the level of loudness I wanted as well. But in the end it was my dads stereo, not mine. In order to continue to use it I had to do as he said and mimic what he did when putting on an album and how he treated them. It was hard and tedious to learn how to cue up a record, especially without a cuing lever, but I learned. It was also hard when he showed me how to handle an LP when taking it from its sleeve and jacket; finger on the hole, with hand stretched to allow the thumb to rest on the outside edge of the album. It was real tough to get my little hand to stretch that big distance, but after a few mistakes I did it and didn’t mess up again.

Then the extended listening sessions that went on till midnight, dad with his J&B Rare, Pall Malls and a stack of Model Railroaders to read; and me with a Dr Pepper managing the music rotation. Running over happily to the turntable to cue up another album off our cavalcade of jazz selections. These are experiences and techniques that are imprinted in my DNA; manners with which I address every LP listening session to this day. The respect I developed from those early days are with me now, never to be forgotten.

You know what else is still with me to this very day? The sound of those Mark III amps playing music! I didn’t forget that experience. It became real to me again; I mean real real; when I took the plunge and purchased an Audion Silver Knight. An eight watt, single ended triode, stereo amplifier. The sound of that eight watt amp making my Legacy Studio monitors rock, with clarity and a depth to the music I hadn’t heard in a long time, was amazing. It’s a very nice situation when your memories bump into your reality and there appears to be no difference.

Lain Audio is just me, it is small, just a spare bedroom converted into an office with a workbench. I hope it will stay this way. This is what literally gets me up in the morning, it’s what I can control. With everyday bringing a new canvas just ready for me and my ideas to paint another, perfect reproduction of my ideal amp.