A lifetime of building.

The story of Nomad began long before the first amplifier carried its name.

In 1966, in Niagara Falls, New York, I built my first guitar cables for Ruben's Buy-Sell Shop. Electric guitars and amplifiers were becoming commonplace, but guitar cables were still difficult to find and were rarely sold as accessories. That first job began a lifetime in the music industry.

In 1971 my family founded Spitzer Music Company and at 16 I found myself at the repair bench under the guidance of my father, a master vacuum tube designer whose career began in military and aerospace electronics when tubes were king. Every amplifier that crossed the bench became another lesson in reliability, serviceability, and sound.

By 1975 I began building speaker cabinets. During the late 1970s I took a brief detour into guitar manufacturing, producing several hundred Stone Guitars—Les Paul-style instruments built entirely by hand.

In 1985 I opened Eddie's Music in Berkeley, California. Unable to find a professional amplifier that met my standards, I designed my own. The Nomad Amplifier Company was born in an old ice house behind the store.

Two years later I closed the music store to devote myself entirely to amplifier manufacturing, moving Nomad to Hayward. Those years were spent designing, building, testing, and refining every amplifier that left the shop.

In 1991 I shifted my attention to solid-state amplifier design under the Wolf name, continuing until 1994, when I joined Sal Trentino at Prune Music in San Anselmo, California.

There I returned to vacuum tube design, creating one-of-a-kind amplifiers for Marin County musicians, many built into restored 1940s radio cabinets. Every amplifier was different. Every one was built by hand.

That approach continued for more than thirty years.

Then, in 2025, I returned to an idea that had never left me.

The new generation of Nomad amplifiers is not a reissue of the past. It is the realization of ideas that began decades ago but could not be fully explored at the time. Every amplifier is built around one purpose: to give the musician complete control over the circuit itself, making the amplifier as expressive as the instrument it serves.

Today, Nomad represents nearly six decades of building, repairing, designing, and listening.

There is no way to build it better.