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In Reply to: "Clone" amplifiers - can they be trusted? . . . posted by wangmr on June 25, 2015 at 06:46:01:
It really depends on what is being "cloned" and how that is being done. Clone implies an exact copy, but that is rarely the case. A number of very high performing and expensive amps, such as Audionote and Western Electric amps, are supposedly "cloned, but that often means that a similar circuit is employed. With these brands, it is hardly the circuit that makes the amps special, it is the parts and the build. Most of the clones don't even attempt to make comparable parts, particularly the output transformers, inductors and capacitors.
I own an amp that is based on the Western Electric 133a design. I suppose it is a "clone," but, a LOT of the parts are carefully selected Western Electric and other vintage parts, the input transformers are decent alternatives to Western Electric transformers (Langevin) and the output transformers are the real deal (Western Electric 171C). The tubes are also genuine Western Electric 348s and 349s.
I recently saw a beautiful linestage that was packed with Western Electric parts. Well, actually Chinese parts made to look very much like genuine Western Electric parts. It was a very costly knock off (it would have been cheap if it were genuine) that was a cruel joke on anyone who bought it.
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- It depends. - Larry I 10:25:13 06/25/15 (1)
- RE: It depends./ thanks for story [n.t.a.] - wangmr 11:16:01 06/29/15 (0)
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