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  2. Western Electric (tube manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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    Few factories make tubes of any kind as the market for these devices is small. Tubes have generally been replaced by transistors, which are smaller, much more efficient, produce less heat and are less expensive. However, there still exists a few markets for tubes, such as high end audio reproduction and many electric guitar amplifiers. The ...

  3. Home audio - Wikipedia

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    Audiophiles debate the merits of analog vs. digital sound, and despite the digital age, vinyl records and vacuum tubes remain popular among audiophiles due to their unique sound characteristics. While many audiophile techniques are grounded in objective criteria, the perceived sound quality is subjective, leading to some techniques being based ...

  4. Audiophile - Wikipedia

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    Audiophile amplifiers are available based on solid-state (semiconductor) technology, vacuum-tube (valve) technology, or hybrid technology—semiconductors and vacuum tubes. Dedicated amplifiers are also commonly used by audiophiles to drive headphones, especially those with high impedance and/or low sensitivity, or electrostatic headphones.

  5. High fidelity - Wikipedia

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    This period is regarded as the "Golden Age of Hi-Fi", when vacuum tube equipment manufacturers of the time produced many models considered superior by modern audiophiles, and just before solid state (transistorized) equipment was introduced to the market, subsequently replacing tube equipment as the mainstream technology.

  6. 12AU7 - Wikipedia

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    It belongs to a large family of dual-triode vacuum tubes which share the same pinout (RETMA 9A). 12AU7 is also known in Europe under its Mullard–Philips tube designation ECC82 . [ 1 ] There are many equivalent tubes with different names, some identical, some designed for ruggedness, long life, or other characteristics; examples are the US ...

  7. Valve audio amplifier - Wikipedia

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    A valve audio amplifier or vacuum tube audio amplifier is a valve amplifier used for sound reinforcement, sound recording and reproduction. Until the invention of solid state devices such as the transistor , all electronic amplification was produced by valve (tube) amplifiers.

  8. Stereophile - Wikipedia

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    Stereophile was founded in 1962 [2] by J. Gordon Holt.With the August 1987 issue, it started monthly publication. In 1998, Stereophile was acquired by the Petersen Publishing Company. [3]

  9. The Absolute Sound - Wikipedia

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    The Absolute Sound was founded in 1973 by Harry Pearson, who was its editor-in-chief and publisher.In the early years, TAS was a quarterly, digest-sized magazine and accepted no advertisements. [1]

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