I started my audio collection in Los Angeles while I was running a separate business. And as an audio buff, I got into the best: Western Electric.

I met Mr. John Bonner of Warner Brothers, sound department manager at that time. I tried to buy his speaker at home “JBL Harts field speaker.”
After the meeting, he let his worker to handle the deal for him. Since then, he introduced many of his colleagues to me, and eventually I met many technicians at Hollywood’s movie studios. Some of them were employees of the Western Electric company.

They gave me all the catalogues, brochures of JBL, Altec, Jensen, McIntosh, Marantz, Tru-sonic etc.

My main buyers were from Japan, and later South Korea.
One day, a customer visited my studio and just listened to the music for 3 hours without a word. He revisited several times accompanied by my friend and finally suggested, “Why don’t you make replicas of Western Electric?” He reminded over and over a few times, and one day I made up my mind to try.

Luckily I was able to consult technicians from Hollywood, and many of those who were retired provided great help in many aspects. Thankfully the magnet metal alloy was solved without much problems.

The rest of the process–milling, coil winding, etc. went smoothly, and I had a wonderful replica of the WE555 drivers.

Obtaining the old parts for a replica of the WE555 was quite difficult. However I found some in the old part shops of vintage gears in Los Angeles.

The wood horn was also very hard to finish. I put in an order with three veteran carpenters, one after another for three years, but failed to get the right one. Finally I decided to finish it on my own.

One half size of the WE15A horn, took me three years to finish two size models (large and small).

And quite recently, I finished the whole process. It took me 20 years.

I wish to continue to the Western Electric legacy.
And I will do my best to serve you.

Thanks,
Yun

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