In Reply to: RE: Congrats to John Curl posted by Charles Hansen on March 24, 2016 at 15:59:42:
> JC's designs were in a league of their own - completely above and beyond
> what anybody else had done. JC invented the complementary-differential
> input stage way back in 1968 while working at Ampex. Then he went on to
> use complementary JFETs long before anybody else.
I remember visiting John in Berkeley in 1988, when he was producing the
Vendetta phono stage. When I arrived, he was sitting at his desk matching
JFETs by hand. A great!
John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile
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- RE: Congrats to John Curl - John Atkinson 03/24/1616:13:30 03/24/16 (1)
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