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In Reply to: Tone Controls in preamps and their valuable uses at times. posted by Michael Samra on May 14, 2016 at 23:41:20:
Equipment manufactures MUST sell new products in order to stay in business. Magazines and (much later) websites must review the latest gear in order to retain subscribers so they can remain in business. Reviewers must write flowery prose about this new equipment in order to pique the interest of their readers and increase circulation in order to retain their jobs.
So along came the 1970's. Not a whole hell of a lot of really new gear hitting the marketplace. The manufacturers (and the rest) realize that they have to come up with something in order to stir up consumer interest and convince their target audience to give up their old stuff and buy the "new, improved" versions. All of a sudden, tone controls are the spawn of the devil (the straight wire with gain argument), tubes introduce distortion (and have become obsolete) and cartridges must track at .5g to .75g in order to qualify as the current "state of the art" so consumers are lectured that they must toss their old cartridges and buy tonearms that are able to handle this ultra-low tracking force in order to retain their membership in the state of the art club.
So, tone controls are slowly coming back in vogue, tubes are seeing a strong resurgence in the marketplace, and where can one find a new cartridge (or tonearm for that matter) that is capable of performing at .5g?
It's all about sales, people.
My admittedly jaded opinion leads me to say "follow the money"!
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