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Old 24th Jun 2022, 9:36 pm   #108
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Default Re: Fidelity transistorised Playmaster - reverse engineering?

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Originally Posted by Ted Kendall View Post
Looks the same to me. Does it have a spare way on the rec/rep switch? Random thought - did the transistor machine precede the valve version? It could just be that, faced with an intractable problem, Fidelity just "ran home to Mama" and used valves instead, After all, the later Braemar did, didn't it?
There is a spare position on the r/p switch. Haven't studied it all properly yet.

AFAIK the valve version came first in about 1964 and continued after the transistor one was dropped, then as you say the Braemar used valves. They do seem to have got cold feet about transistors although there was another model - Playmatic? which was a transistor/valve hybrid.
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