Guest Writer: Tom Lawler

Tom Lawler is a 30-something computer scientist who resides in Connecticut and is responsible for system administration, network security, and data analysis. In December of 2006, a friend gave him a copy of AudioXpress magazine and said, “I think you might be interested in this”. Tom suddenly remembered that he had loved speaker and amplifi er building as a kid, and reinvested himself in the hobby. When not building speakers, he is restoring a collection of approximately seventy-fi ve pre-war (1930-1940) vacuum tube radios. Tom’s next project will probably be a “from scratch” pushpull vacuum tube amplifi er using NOS Raytheon 6336B tubes (30 watt dual triodes), which will of course lead to another speaker project to complement the tube amplifier.