Assertion: amplifier's distortion | /r/CapableOf | thwart such efforts
Facets:
value: in the past
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The earliest Mc’s were built around the transformer that Frank McIntosh and Gordon Gow designed (and patented), one that allowed them to move beyond the power limitations of Class A design and into the region of much higher outputs, without the audible and ugly “notch” distortion that had thwarted such efforts in the past.