I started my audio collection in Los Angeles while I was doing my Business.

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  As an audio buff, I got into the best: Western Electric gears.

 I met Mr. John Bonner of Warner Brothers  sound dept. Manager( at that time).

 I tried to buy his speaker at his home "JBL Hartz field speaker".

After the meeting,He let his worker to handle the deal for him.

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Since that, He introduced many of his colleages to me.

Eventually I met many of technicians in Hollywood's movie studios.

Some of them were the Employee of the Wetern Electric co.

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They gave me All the catalogues, brochures of JBL,Altec,Jensen Mcintosh,Marantz, Trusonic etc.

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Years later, I have sold some of my collection due to the storage problem.​

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Japanese were my main buyers at that time...later Korean.

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Oneday a customer visit my studio and just listened the music 3 hours without a word.

He revisited several times acompanied by my friend.

And Suggested   me "Why don't you make the replica of Western Electric gears?".

He remind me same over and over.

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Oneday I made up my mind to try.

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Luckily I could have the consulting of the technicians in Hollywood.

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Those retired techicians were a great help in many aspects.

Luckily The magnet metal alloy was solved without much problems.

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The rest of the  process: milling ,coil winding etc went smoothly.

 I got the wonderful replica of the WE555 drivers:

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To get the old parts for replica of We555 was quite difficult.

However there were some old part shop of the vitange gears in Los Angeles.

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The wood horn was also very hard to finish.

 I ordered to 3 veteran carpenters one after another for three years.

But failed to get the right one.

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Finally i decided to finsh by my self.

On half size of WE15A horn : It took for me three years to finish two size model( large and small).

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Altec 284/7 driver replica.​

AWS 555 : replica of WE555.

AWS 4181: replica of WE4181.

AWS 597 tweeter : Replica of WE597 

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AWS594:Replica of WE594.

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Quite recently,I could have  finished the whole process.

It took me 20 years.

I wish to keep the Wstern Electric legacy.

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I /we will do our best to serve you.

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Thanks,

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yun.

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