Stereophile pinpointed the precise moment it was OK to switch to transistors

mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 33,802
in 2 Channel Audio
Looking at an old (ca. 1971) Dynaco brochure tonight (acquired from www.hifiengine.com a wonderful resources to folks like me) and saw a couple of quotes that, given the components referenced, I found rather amusing... so I thought I'd share.

Happy (almost) New Year (which is hurtling towards us here on the East Coast at ca. 1000 miles per hour)!

24012040491_2616b3ba77_b.jpgDynaco Stereophile quotes ca 1971 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    There you go. Yet we still have Luddites trying to convince us early 20th century technology is better. LOL. :)
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    Heretic!
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,416
    BlueFox wrote: »
    There you go. Yet we still have Luddites trying to convince us early 20th century technology is better. LOL. :)

    That's because it is...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,802
    edited January 2016
    ...better than an PAT-4 and an ST-120?

    Roger that.

    :- )

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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    It looks like 1971 was the year Dynaco lost their hearing abilities.
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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