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What year did tube lose to SS

There was a major paradigm shift when CD became the media of choice I think it happened in 1982. All of sudden I went to the recprd stores and found CDs instead.
Similarly although I was too young to remember first hand, there had to be a year that saw the golden era of HI FI all tubed mostly stereo gave way to Transistor or Solid State. Please take a guess. I have no statistic but I think it was 1964. Was that The year when more SS amps were produced than tubed amps?
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Zenith made its last tube televisions in 1971. By then, tubes had lost the war and many a repair technician were scrambling as to how to adapt. TV and to a lesser degree, radios and home entertainment systems, led the push to solid state ... not hifi equipment.

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Rich
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Hi John:

Obviously, I was not referring to the picture tube ... just the other tubes used in a TV's circuits.

Rich
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Let's not kid ourselves ... 99%, if not more, of what we use in our daily lives is solid state driven ... start with the PCs that we are using to view this thread. What portable devices are tube driven? 'Lost' may not be the best choice of words, but please don't think that tubes rule just because we purchase the occasional EL 34 or roll some NOS 12AT7s for more midrange bloom

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Rich
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