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jgalt wrote:
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> Does anyone know why carbon composition resistors are preferred for vintage
> and reproduction amps? I thought metal film resistors are lower noise?

This part I’ll leave for the others in the News Group to respond to.

> I don’t understand how cloth wire effects things either.

Well, the flow of electrons through the wire could care less what
clothes the wire wears. 🙂

However, the truth of the matter for Fender’s discontinuation of the
cloth wire in the amplifiers was due to environmental reasons. It was
found that a fungus caused a type of jungle rot of the cloth in the
South American exports. In some of those amplifiers, only the wire
conductor was left of the original amplifiers wiring.

Just one of the Fender moments in history I thought I’d share with the
Group.

Regards,

Rich Koerner,
Time Electronics.
http://www.timeelect.com