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Tenth Octave
A deep green storefront for a two person valve shop that winds every output transformer on its own lathe.
Published September 19, 2026. Built from a brief, no AI, no account needed to download.
The brief this store was built from
Tenth Octave builds single ended valve headphone amplifiers above a closed creamery in Brattleboro, Vermont. Two people run it, a repair tech who spent nine years inside broadcast consoles and a machinist who winds the output transformers on a lathe he rebuilt from a 1948 frame. Chassis are milled from solid aluminium and finished in a dark olive powder coat. The shop sells one amplifier and builds it to order, six at a time.
- Product
- Model One Headphone Amplifier, $1240
- About it
- A single ended valve amplifier for headphones between 32 and 600 ohms, with a milled aluminium chassis, a stepped attenuator in place of a potentiometer, and two 6SN7 valves standing clear of the top plate. It draws 41 watts at idle and takes about twenty minutes to settle, which is why the volume knob has a detent you can count in the dark.
- Brand facts
- Output transformers wound in the shop, one matched pair per amplifier, never bought in. Point to point wiring on a turret board, no printed circuit, so any part comes out with hand tools. Every unit runs 72 hours on the bench and ships with its own printed bias log.
- Style
- Luxe Editorial. Editorial luxury — large light serif, sharp outlines
Who this theme is for
A hardware brand with one expensive product and a long reason behind it. Amplifiers, turntables, speakers, cameras, bicycles, knives, anything where the buyer reads for ten minutes before spending four figures. The layout gives the first screen to a single photograph and one claim, then hands the rest of the page to the specifics, because a shopper at this price is not browsing a grid. It suits a shop with one to three products and a lot to say about each, and it would waste itself on a catalog of two hundred accessories.
What was decided in the brief
The style is Luxe Editorial on the forest variant. Audio photography is nearly all metal, black plastic and glass, so the interface went deep green rather than the charcoal every electronics site already uses, and the copper accent picks up the valve glow instead of fighting it. Headings are set in a light serif at a large size with wide leading, which reads as considered rather than loud, and the body measure is held near 70 characters so a spec paragraph does not run the width of a desktop screen. The three brand facts sit under the hero as plain lines, since transformer, wiring and burn in are the three things this buyer checks before price.
What is in the ZIP
- A single-product homepage: hero, trust strip, benefits, how-to-use or specs, reviews, final call to action.
- The whole store shell: product, collection, cart, search and 404 templates, header, footer, announcement bar.
- Valid Shopify 2.0 sections with schema, so every line of text is editable in the Shopify editor.
- The photos you see in the preview, ready to swap for your own.
Questions
- Is this Shopify theme really free to download?
- Yes. You get a complete Shopify 2.0 theme ZIP and no account is needed. In your Shopify admin open Online Store, then Themes, then Add theme, then Upload zip file.
- My product needs a long spec list. Where does that go?
- The product page has a details block under the description that takes plain rows of label and value, so impedance, power draw, valve complement and weight sit in one readable column instead of a paragraph. The section repeats, so you can run a second block for what is in the box.
- Can I swap the green for my own brand color?
- Yes. The palette is five settings in the theme editor. Change the primary and the headings, the header, the footer and the section rules all move with it, because no color is hardcoded in the CSS.
