![]() It is fair to say though that the current generation of young electronics enthusiasts, amateur or otherwise, having completely missed out on the valve age, might make the mistake of dismissing valves as 'extinct dinosaurs'. This is especially true with regard to their use in Hi-Fi amplifiers, where aficionados claim that they give a better sound than their 'silicon sisters', particularly under overload conditions, and there is more to this than mere Hi-Fi snobbery. Hence, in view of the obvious advantages of solid state electronics – small size, long life and reliability, economy of operation and so on it is perhaps surprising that, in recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in valves, ![]() To the average person 'in-the-street', the impact was felt in the influence of modern electronics on the performance and physical appearance of domestic items, such as TV receivers, radios and Hi-Fi systems, the viability of compact video equipment, in fact the whole way of modem life. Virtually every practical application of electronics bowed to the might of the silicon devices. ![]() It was the invention of the valve and its subsequent development that ushered in the age of electronics, It reigned supreme, for the first half of the 20th century and into the beginning of the second until gradually, at first and then quite rapidly, it was elbowed out by the transistor (the discrete form of this was in turn, largely displaced by the advent of more and more complex integrated circuits). ![]()
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