Quote Originally Posted by JoeE SP9
Mundorf resistors, Solen and Clarity caps is a lot of money to try to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. In they end they are still sows ears.
Upgrading to them makes a pretty good sounding sows ears. You really need to hear them with their internal parts upgraded before calling them sows ears. I suspect you have never really heard the original models, just their later incarnation. The first original models were not sows ears, but they were not a silk purse either. But neither were a lot of speakers manufacturered during that period. They definitely sounded better than many speakers of their time.