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Posted by crooner (A ) on October 11, 2009 at 08:09:14

In Reply to: RE: Interesting observations... posted by geraldm121 on October 11, 2009 at 03:54:34:

These early caps deteriorated quite rapidly and caused numerous problems. Tube equipment used paper and film caps and those were more reliable.

I suspect that once updated with modern caps, these amps should be as reliable as modern units.

I believe the reason JBL dropped the line was economics. They were acquired by the Jervis Corporation (precursor to Harman International), and the new owners decided to kill the electronics line as it was not the company's main business. It also would compete with Harman/Kardon as the products had similar marketing targets.

Also, manufacturing in the US was starting to be threatened by the Japanese around that time. Perhaps it made no sense to the investors to continue the line.

However, the patents held by Locanthi were used by most Japanese manufacturers.

Pioneer ended up hiring Mr. Locanthi by the mid 1970s.

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