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In Reply to: RE: Help me understand... posted by KLechterO78s on February 23, 2010 at 09:29:36:
Both Marantz and Mac built reissues of some of their highly regarded vintage tube amps. The Marantz was generally received better by the public and reviewers because it was more true to the original, but neither was built exactly like the originals, and it’s mostly because to produce them as “exact” copies would require making very small quantities of parts such as caps specifically for a very small production run and both manufacturers probably realized that the consumer won’t pay the price to support this type of effort, therefore they both built replicas that were close, but not quite the same as the originals.
To build a copy of a WE 91A exactly the way it was done originally would require that every part be dissected and copied at a probably non-profitable cost. I bought two pairs of 91A copies from a guy in Hong Kong who rewound all the transformers to the same winding specs as the originals, on original WE cores and then found either NOS or very close copies of NOS for most of the other parts. An amazing effort, but it still missed the originals.
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