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Analog perfectly satisfactory by 1955? Pretty close.
In going back and reading through some of the books I have and
recommend it's astonishing now how the audio world had pretty much everything it needed by 1955. After that, it's just detail improvement, or in some cases deprovement. They didn't have cheap silicon diodes, so you needed tube rectifiers, not only for HV but bias as well unless you wanted to use a battery. And a relay to open if no bias voltage was there and bring in a cathode resistor. Also, low impedance B+ supplies were tougher, but Hg vapor or xenon tubes were available that worked well. Are we better off today? Well, yes, in all objective measures. But it isn't as much fun is it? And in a lot of ways we aren't that much better off. A lot of audio equipment still sells for stupid sums. |
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