Similarly, there are no “Mullard,” “Svetlana” or “Tung Sol” new production tubes.
While Legal and Lawful, the substance is not equal. It is deception playing on ignorance to profit.
They aren’t even replicas, they are different, inferior products offered under names built on objectively superior ones.
Properly stated, they are New Sensor tubes, not even knock offs or proper reissues. One could construe them as tributes, arguably lack luster ones in comparison to the genuine originals, but they are not real.
Essentially, the practice is, in fact, evil, due to the fact that the sales process omits the above and works on ignorance to provide lesser value than advertised. That is cunning, not intelligence.
Does that work for me? No. I prefer the EHX units to the “Stolen valor” imitations.
Would I cease production if I owned NS?
Nope. But I would labor to balance the actual value with objective, technical information first with subjective taste and judgement second.
It’s almost like literally everything in the post-fiat central bank usury world is fake until proven to be gay, assumably so!
Caveat Emptor!
Now I shall procure a Scumback J75-LD and leave the keyboard for the fretboard as suggested by our own
@Scumback Speakers, who is the living Truth of being neither fake nor gay.
In Mike Matthews defense, recreating WW2 excellence generated under the pressures and initiatives of war are economically impossible.
That said, Jim’s products carry a name born of the Creator’s peculiar sense of absurd humor and love for a good origin story. His venture is the inverse of New Sensor, in that they are made by a “Scumbag”with the purpose (spirit in initiative) to meet or/or exceed the originals’ in value, AND deliver.
I can BBQ and drink to that.
This reminds me of how I would call my truck the Stellantis Ram 1500 lol
