Western Electric 91 E just arrived ...

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Golden Boy - Western Electric 91 E (full unboxing)

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Very nice.... I thought it was vapor ware but it actually does exist. Enjoy and be sure to share your impressions
 
I don't usually get excited about integrateds but this thing is really bad ass. How cool would it be to have the tubes retract inside the case and extend up with a switch on the remote?
 
Oh, this beauty paired with Avantgarde Duo's or some Tannoy Canterbury's??? Drool...
 
Hello folks,
Thinking about buying this amp to try on my modified JBL Olympus S8r.
Who owns it here ? Which speakers do you use ? Which Output Transformer Impedance did you choose ?
Thanks a lot !
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Hello Mike,
I admit that the new price is what tempted me actually.
For sure it is very hard and unfair to the dealers who paid the original price before WE went “direct”.
WE must be desperate to do this.
 
I look at this amp in a very different light than all of you.

Anyone see a problem here?


VS


See the problem? If you do this to your dealers who have bought demo product and have been selling your product for a few years and then you do this?

Speaks volumes.
I look at this amp in a very different light than all of you.

Anyone see a problem here?


VS


See the problem? If you do this to your dealers who have bought demo product and have been selling your product for a few years and then you do this?

Speaks volumes.
such bs, let legit dealers build the product line, get them out in the field and sell to anyone else who can ride on there hard work of building the product line
 
I look at this amp in a very different light than all of you.

Anyone see a problem here?


VS


See the problem? If you do this to your dealers who have bought demo product and have been selling your product for a few years and then you do this?

Speaks volumes.
It does.

Western Electric developed the 'parafeed' (parallel feed) SET technology to get around the bass problem all SETs have when using a gapped output transformer. This is an example of a parafeed amp and really is the way to do it if you want to use an SET.

Normally a parafeed SET is less expensive than the traditional counterparts since the output transformer and in this case, Constant Current Source as a plate load, are so much less expensive.

Apparently they thought that the use of a Constant Current Source (CCS) instead of a choke plate load was patent-able, and the USPTO agreed, as best I can make out because they didn't search enough to find out that sort of thing has been understood for quite some time. Perhaps there is a nuance I'm missing...
 
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