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Terapeak Market Research has made Viva Tubes (and owner Dave Mell, especially) their latest industry spotlight. Click here to read the article.

VIVA TUBES is so excited to announce that we have moved to a new location that is double the size of our last at 7000 square feet. We are now located in the vibrant and art/music centered city of Easthampton, MA. Our new building, the Brickyard is located next to the well-known Eastworks building and houses a music studio, 70 practicing musicians and two Breweries with full bars. Currently we are operating out of the warehouse and are building out offices and a retail space. Within the next …

A big thanks to Randy Miller for submitting his 6T9 DIY audio amplifier project. Randy Miller's 6T9 Tube Amplifier you will find a complete write up and schematic to build his amplifier using the uncommon 6T9 compactron tube.

VIVA TUBES needs your help. Earn a store credit for writing an article or review for us! We want to add a learning resource for beginners and experts alike on our website. Looking for those knowledgeable in the tube or audio fields to contribute. We need people to write articles, write-ups, tube reviews, guides etc. Really we are looking for anything related to tubes or audio. If you write us an article and we use it on the website you will be credited for your work as th …

I am very pleased to announce that VIVA TUBES is now carrying New Production tubes as well as a few other new products. Over the course of the next few months we will be carrying all of the popular brands and models of New Production tubes like JJ, Electr-Harmonix, Sovtek, Mullard, Tung-Sol, Genalex, TAD, Svetlana, Sino, Groove Tubes and more!A few new exciting products include missing Guide Key Savers and Hickok TV-7 dual triode switches for easy testing with those double sided tubes.Guide Key …