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wirewithgain · 24th Feb 2021, 9:38 pm

Thanks again for these contributions.
So we can say that ten years after this advert from 1958 a version of the WAL Gain pre-amplifier was still considered to produce sound quality sufficient to merit its selection for incorporation into a test rig unit built by J.E. Sugden and commissioned by A.C. Farnell. Fair to say that there was probably excellent oversight available in both companies.
Is it possible that this particular unit’s WAL Gain design was seen as something special?
Would key personnel in either of these eminent companies have been content with putting effort and expense into designing and building a new device that was likely to provide, by 1968, second rate output or be judged as technologically somewhat behind the curve?

24th Feb 2021, 9:38 pm	#33
wirewithgain Triode Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: London, UK. Posts: 31	Re: Sugden preamp WAL AC Farnell. Thanks again for these contributions. So we can say that ten years after this advert from 1958 a version of the WAL Gain pre-amplifier was still considered to produce sound quality sufficient to merit its selection for incorporation into a test rig unit built by J.E. Sugden and commissioned by A.C. Farnell. Fair to say that there was probably excellent oversight available in both companies. Is it possible that this particular unit’s WAL Gain design was seen as something special? Would key personnel in either of these eminent companies have been content with putting effort and expense into designing and building a new device that was likely to provide, by 1968, second rate output or be judged as technologically somewhat behind the curve?