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Re: VIntage Kustom vs. Newer Kustom [message #4915 is a reply to message #4909] Sat, 02 October 2004 03:56 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
C4ster
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Registered: June 2001
Location: Mukwonago, WI (Milwaukee...
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Hi guys,
Like I said in earlier posts, I'm sitting here in Russia, feeling sorry for myself and spending the last hour reading most of the posts on this thread. I think I'm hooked to the Internet with a 9600 baud wireless and it takes 30 seconds to a minute to change messages. So I have had a lot of time to address the new/old thing. First off, I have to ask, why create a new reissue in the first place? (hands upturned, stupid look on my face, that part is easy) I think that we have the most unique brand of equipment EVER to come from any manufacturer. It is that uniqueness that creates the aura that is exclusively Kustom. It is like drooling over a '55 Vette or a '68 Hemi Charger. You CAN't recreate that once the original is finished. Even later runs of the same thing, get old. If Bud had not sold his company and continued building T&R, would they be the same today?? Not a chance. Then they would be just another Marshall, Fender or PV. Trust me, I'm not ripping those amps. The original Fender Bassman, Showman and others were handwired, no printed circuit board masterpieces. But by moving on, that just made the original better. I agree that a solid state Kustom 200 can be very bland for guitar. I read that as being no distortion or overdrive. But they are the purist sounding amps ever. That doesn't make them bad, just different. And it is that difference that draws us to them in the first place. Early on in electronics, I'm talking the '20's and 30's, companies were trying to get amps that DIDN'T distort and had a low hamonic content. They wanted to reproduce the sound perfectly. When did that get to be a bad thing?? I'm seeing more clean specimens coming out on eBay every day. The beat up crap seems to have been weaned out and we are now seeing that vintage '64 GTO not a '76 Yugo or worse a 2004 Honda ricer from the "Fast and the Furious". We have something that produces gasps of delight and amazement. Let's leave it at that and revel in our wonderful hobby.
Conrad

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