Roth Audio
Roth Audio has been born out of a wish to create better audio systems and to get to the heart of music reproduction
and performance. In our opinion, you cannot separate the two, which is why we design and manufacture devices for
both listening to music and for creating your own performances.
The team behind the products we create have one thing in common – a desire to provide the very best systems at
real-world prices. The driving force behind the brand, James Roth, has had a significant career in the field of audio
– and the Roth Audio team have all been involved in either the creation of audio systems, performance in bands, or
have operated at the highest level within the professional audio and hi-fi industries.
The focus of the design and marketing team has been to identify how people listen to music, what the emerging
formats are (most people have moved on from vinyl, but….the listening experience is still second-to-none.….) and
how we can then create systems to reproduce the music in the most effective way possible.
We have identified a major need in the marketplace – that of affordable audio amplification devices based on
vacuum tubes. With the proliferation of digital audio formats and all their acknowledged advantages (portability,
ease of use, cool design, etc.), the growth in demand for vacuum tube products has one very obvious justification...
great sound. And let’s face it – they look so much better than the usual generic plastic boxes that proliferate in this
market.
Tubes offer a wide variety of sounds from completely ‘clean’ to ‘full-on overdrive’ which are invaluable when used in
conjunction with digital audio, resulting in a less ‘sterile’ more ‘analogue’ sound. It would be difficult to describe every
sound between these extremes but there are three quite distinctive sounds that occur below, on and above the
signal clipping point.
Clean Sound - where no perceptible overdrive is audible. But even when a tube operates well below its point of
audible overdrive, it still exhibits an amount of sound compression, or sustain. This is offten described as ‘warmth’.
Fuller, Creamier Sound - where the tube is pushed into subtle overdrive at the start of notes and chords, then
decaying into a cleaner sound.
Overdriven Sound - delivering long sustain and smooth distortion.
Roth Audio has been born out of a wish to create better audio systems and to get to the heart of music reproduction
and performance. In our opinion, you cannot separate the two, which is why we design and manufacture devices for
both listening to music and for creating your own performances.
The team behind the products we create have one thing in common – a desire to provide the very best systems at
real-world prices. The driving force behind the brand, James Roth, has had a significant career in the field of audio
– and the Roth Audio team have all been involved in either the creation of audio systems, performance in bands, or
have operated at the highest level within the professional audio and hi-fi industries.
The focus of the design and marketing team has been to identify how people listen to music, what the emerging
formats are (most people have moved on from vinyl, but….the listening experience is still second-to-none.….) and
how we can then create systems to reproduce the music in the most effective way possible.
We have identified a major need in the marketplace – that of affordable audio amplification devices based on
vacuum tubes. With the proliferation of digital audio formats and all their acknowledged advantages (portability,
ease of use, cool design, etc.), the growth in demand for vacuum tube products has one very obvious justification...
great sound. And let’s face it – they look so much better than the usual generic plastic boxes that proliferate in this
market.
Tubes offer a wide variety of sounds from completely ‘clean’ to ‘full-on overdrive’ which are invaluable when used in
conjunction with digital audio, resulting in a less ‘sterile’ more ‘analogue’ sound. It would be difficult to describe every
sound between these extremes but there are three quite distinctive sounds that occur below, on and above the
signal clipping point.
Clean Sound - where no perceptible overdrive is audible. But even when a tube operates well below its point of
audible overdrive, it still exhibits an amount of sound compression, or sustain. This is offten described as ‘warmth’.
Fuller, Creamier Sound - where the tube is pushed into subtle overdrive at the start of notes and chords, then
decaying into a cleaner sound.
Overdriven Sound - delivering long sustain and smooth distortion.
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