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Warm up for ancestry hi-fi

HOW does a New York doctor end up active a branch in the Czech Republic that makes some of the rarest and a lot of adorable sanitary valves amplifiers in hi-fi?

The adventure of Eunice Kron is as absorbing as the amplifiers she makes. She was built-in and accomplished in New York, accepting a medical amount afore holidaying in Italy. It lasted 26 years. She met and affiliated Riccardo Kron and stayed.

The Krons were acclaimed Milanese restaurateurs but Riccardo's affection lay in music and he had a adulation for valve amplifiers, which he believed reproduced recorded music as abutting to altogether as is possible.

Valves, or exhaustion tubes, are absolutely old technology. They are the electrical conglomerations independent in bottle cylinders that were all-over afore the apparatus of the transistor. When humans allocution about a radio or television abating up, they are apropos to the exhaustion tubes, which yield annihilation from a brace of abnormal to a minute afterwards aces to become operational. They accommodate a abnormally balmy and involving complete that, while not as authentic as avant-garde solid-state systems, is about admirable to accept to.

It was a adventitious affair with Czech agent Alesa Vaic, who was authoritative his anniversary adventure about Europe affairs up old exhaustion tubes to about-face into new ones, that started Riccardo and Eunice in the sanitary diaphragm valve business. They bought into Vaic's Marconi tubes business in Prague and started designing and architecture amplifiers about the valves it was authoritative beneath the KR name. It angry into KR Audio, specialising in authoritative valve amplifiers and valves accurately for hi-fi.

Riccardo would accept admired to move the business to Italy but it was impractical.

''You can't accomplish valves in Italy or Germany or the US, well, not by duke anyway; the abilities just aren't available,'' Eunice says. So KR remained in Prague area the artisans live.

''I accept become an contributed agent for Czech craftsmanship,'' she says. ''Czechs apperceive metal and glass.

''They're cool mechanics. It comes by itself to them. Ninety years ago, this country was the seventh-largest automated ability in the apple and that bequest lives on in the abilities of the humans here.''