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...στον Robert Harley, για λογαριασμό του Stereophile (Αύγουστος, 1994).
"You've set the audio industry back 20 years!"
That was a fellow engineer's response upon seeing vacuum tubes in William Z. Johnson's amplifier at a hi-fi show in 1970. Back then, the vacuum tube had been totally abandoned in favor of the transistor. In fact, the only newly made audio components based on vacuum-tube technology you could buy were guitar amplifiers. Glowing bottles were embarrassing reminders to the engineering community of just how "primitive" electronics technology had been just a short time ago.
Imagine that engineer's surprise if he could have known that, instead of setting the audio world back 20 years, Bill Johnson's pioneering return to the vacuum tube paved the way for a tube renaissance that would reach full bloom 20 years later.
To put the modern popularity of vacuum-tube audio into historical perspective, and bring you the views of the man who started the revival, I interviewed Bill Johnson at my home last December. As the founder of Audio Research and a designer of both tubed and solid-state products for the past 45 years, Bill Johnson is truly one of the founding fathers of the American high-end audio industry. I began by asking him why he wanted to build an audio amplifier in the first place.
Διαβάστε περισσότερα: Stereophile.com
"You've set the audio industry back 20 years!"
That was a fellow engineer's response upon seeing vacuum tubes in William Z. Johnson's amplifier at a hi-fi show in 1970. Back then, the vacuum tube had been totally abandoned in favor of the transistor. In fact, the only newly made audio components based on vacuum-tube technology you could buy were guitar amplifiers. Glowing bottles were embarrassing reminders to the engineering community of just how "primitive" electronics technology had been just a short time ago.
Imagine that engineer's surprise if he could have known that, instead of setting the audio world back 20 years, Bill Johnson's pioneering return to the vacuum tube paved the way for a tube renaissance that would reach full bloom 20 years later.
To put the modern popularity of vacuum-tube audio into historical perspective, and bring you the views of the man who started the revival, I interviewed Bill Johnson at my home last December. As the founder of Audio Research and a designer of both tubed and solid-state products for the past 45 years, Bill Johnson is truly one of the founding fathers of the American high-end audio industry. I began by asking him why he wanted to build an audio amplifier in the first place.
Διαβάστε περισσότερα: Stereophile.com
