In Reply to: RE: What an astonishingly insightful (and iconoclastic) assessment of some formerly revered designs.... posted by tube wrangler on March 21, 2017 at 19:25:14:
I remember hearing them in my "youth" and wondering what all of the fuss was about.
It was the looks of the thing that gets them. It is pretty. It has a meter on its faceplate! It was mono which was exotic for the time. There weren't too many of them made.
I remember looking at the schematic and thinking "there is lots going on here". Bill Johnson must have been inspired by all of that circuitry!
Anyone who thinks Mr. Fraker is an amplifier salesman should consider how many of those amps he sells in a year. If he was truly an amplifier salesman he would be making something the brayers would want to buy and at a much more affordable price.
I don't know why you bother, Mr. Fraker. So many of these replies remind me of that great observation of those too sure of their own knowledge: don't confuse them with the facts they have already made up their minds.
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