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Mysterious History of Vacuum Tubes | SEGMENT 3 | #147
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:07:07
Publish Date: 2017-02-10 20:10:00
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At one of the loudest trade shows in the world, Mike Etchart talks with tech pundit Howard Soroka about the history of vacuum tubes. When they were younger, many consumer electronics were made with vacuum tubes, and then eventually they were replaced by solid state transistors in the early 1970s. The music industry, however, still held onto the need for these tubes, and to this day the biggest brands including Fender, Marshall Amps, and Vox, still use them in their amplifiers. Find out why vacuum tubes have stuck around in the music industry.Listen now.
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