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RE: Congrats to John Curl

> 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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