Last November, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the announcement by Bell Telephone Labs (BTL) of the transistor’s birth. Many articles about the early transistor developments have appeared, but I started to wonder about the earliest commercial transistor vendors. In Part 1 of this article, I discussed an incomplete list of attendees at a transistor…
HP: What was your motivation in bringing what is an iconic product back to market?
JJ: We have always loved the original and for years we were asking ourselves why no one has brought it back. There are a few products out there that retain parts of the circuitry but nothing that keeps the timeless design of the chassis. This is what we wanted to capture when designing the Stereo 21c but inject some modernity within the amplifier by using new components throughout and this is where the name comes from, 21c which represents 21
st Century.
Close Up Of The Stereo C21 Showing the RCA Inputs