A new Dorn

摘要

For those able to think back to the early 1970s, when the valve seemed to be on its last legs - or, rather, pins - its survival would depend on a handful of start-ups that weren't even in business when tubes ruled. Of those manufacturers born before the full-blown tube revival of the mid-to-late '70s, but long after the Golden Age of the pre-transistor era, one name looms largest. It was Audio Research that emerged at a time when nobody was predicting a glowing future for valves.