I have just received my restored Western Electric KS16608 amplifiers. It sounds fantastics!
My Western Electric amplifier is restored by 毅德音響 ARTIST HI FI CO Sifu Mr. 梁文光 Marco. For detail, please see :
http://www.wowhififever.com/KS_16608/WE_KS_16608.htm
The Western Electric KS 16608 (KS = Kearny Specification, a New Jersey subsidiary which supplied replacement parts for WE) was the model after the Western Electric 124. The KS16608, in my opinion, has been seriously under rated. Even though the price is very affordable and cheap, the sound is fantastic! Some so called "experts" has looked down and condamned on these amplifiers. However, the key questions are: Have they audition a perfectly working set of amplifiers or a non performing ones to judge? Have the amplifiers been properly matched with the proper pre-amplifiers and speakers?
They are many reasons why the WE KS16608 is such a wonderful amp to "play".
1. 以價錢論聲可算超值到難以置信。
2. The 6L6 tubes are very resonably priced when comparing with the Kt66, KT88, El34 tubes.
3. The KS 16608 is the model after the WE124 and is 按西電的要求特性交由其他廠代造 (Contract manaufactured)
1 comment:
"KS Spec" definitely does NOT mean "Kearny Spec". I worked in Western Electric's Kearny Works (a full-scale manufacturing location, not just a source of subassemblies) and we were told it stood for "Kellogg Spec". That makes sense, as the earliest KS Specs pre-dated the existence of the Kearny facility. Kellogg was one of the early non-Bell system suppliers of telephone equipment, and Western Electric occasionally made purchases from them, hence the original name of the spec.
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