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I personally think the unicorn tears stuff is dead, people are more realistic these days.
Bentley make a fine car but there are various parts sourced from factories all over the world
By contrast, as far as I know George at Metropolous amps in the USA is very much trying to build his own thing, but it is a hard road, and he has some cracking amps with really good build quality. I think that getting an a small amp company to the point where you are a true international brand without external support is very hard.
I have been told that Jessie does not build all the Lazy J amps and I have built amps that I have branded for other companies too, in this business you got to do what you got to do.
If I went to the Savoy I'm not expecting Gordon Ramsey to cook my meal himself.
I like in the video the guy say no circuit boards while clearly pointing out an amp built with a circuit board, circuit boards are made to look like eyelet boards in these amps, they can still be hand assembled though.
anyway interesting video, gives people like me vision as to what can be achieved from a business point of view... little steps but I am getting there
The one point I was making is that at some point, any business that wants to expand beyond what can be physically produced by one guy, has to take on staff, now to me it doesn't matter if those staff are employed by the guy or by a factory making things to the guys specifications.
After all all if I buy a boutique box, it's the design of the circuit, selection of components and philosophy im buying rather than his soldering skills.
Ultimately you should make a judgement on the price and quality of the product rather than whether it is "boutique" or not.
Designing and building amps are two very different skills and not that related in my opinion; in fact few "boutique" builders do much design work other than tweaking a few values in established designs. That's why I suspect the chassis shown above was "gooped", not so much that there was any thing new to hide, but that there wasn't anything new to hide!
Furthermore how much of an amp does a small builder need to make for it be "boutique"?
The metal work (so you want to pay for someone to punch holes in a chassis, when someone with a CNC machine could do the job cheaper and better)? Winding the transformers (I don't know any builders who do this; there are very good reasons for this)? Building the head shells (woodwork and electronics are different skills)? In which case you would be paying for the inefficiency of building the amp.