The WE 91 was designed by professional but not audiophilically anal
engineers at a particular time for a particular purpose under a particular
set of conditions. For that purpose under those terms at that time it was
a
competent, hardly earth-shakingly good, piece of gear.
Those conditions had about as much to do with "high fidelity" as a Fender
Champ or a Bell & Howell projector amp speaker.
The Oriental buyers of them want them because they provide virtual *****
enhancement amongst their circle of friends. It's that very simple.
Evolution drives ***** size development: the ***** must be large enough to
provide visual sign of status-the literal peckering order-so the high
status males copulate more frequently and with the better women, whilst
being not too big to actually fit in most vaginas or scare off potential
mates for fear of damage. Certain tribes in equatorial Africa, where
****dness is common, have evolutionary pressure for large *****
development whereas in Asian society genital size was utterly unim****tant
for millennia. Only with greater constant awareness of big Occidental and
African *****es has this caused feelings of losing face amongst these
Asians.
To get back to electronics, the WE 91 was designed for use as a
projection booth monitor amplifier, using at any time one of the several
used spares kept on hand from rotating stock in the main, push-pull
amplifiers used in the cinema service. It did this adequately. No more.
At that time it was technically a violation of the license under which
tubes were sold to use regular entertainment radio tubes in cinema
playback gear or to use WE ERPI vended tubes in consumer service. WE had
cross licensing of patents under an agreement which prohibited this. Third
party independent phone equipment which used off the shelf receiving tubes
violated this license, giving WE an effective monopoly in the telco
market. That was a lucrative monopoly. To maintain its pretense-and actual
litigability-WE ERPI had to honor it "the other way", that locked WE tubes
into ERPI gear and everyone else's out so long as ERPI gear was on lease
from and maintained by ERPI. Consequently, even though WE tubes lacked
cost effectiveness once reliable commodity 45s, 2A3s and 50s came out,
they stayed with them.
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