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.


So, please take some time to go through this website and learn more about our hi-fi systems and professional musician products and maybe, our plans for the future.