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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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triode
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I disagree with the premise of the question - tubes never "lost" to solid state, but were merely "outsold" by solid state, in much the way that Chevy outsells Porsche. Popularity does not equal victory, except in a commercial sense...it's rather a reflection of the lack of discernment of the masses.

Ahem.
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