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    D. KOWALSKI

    Sep 21, 2021 4 minutes
    TESTED BY DAVE HUNTER

    FOR MORE THAN 10 years, David Kowalski has been building and repairing tube amps in McAllen, Texas, just across the Rio Grande — and the U.S. border — from Reynosa, Mexico. Fairly recently, he came up with his own big idea in the form of the tiny Dark Gene micro amplifier. Available in Red and Green models, the Dark Gene puts out a diminutive 0.5 watt into your choice of four-to 16-ohm cabinet, and is voiced and gained-up to sound huge in spirit, if not in decibels.

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