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If Rupert Neve is just happy that people use his designs without financial gain, why doesn't he allow the clone companies to put his name on their units.
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Because he doesn't even own his name any more...he sold the Neve company years ago.
I'm sure that he could easily make a killing by building a preamp that sounds like his old "desirable" ones do. He knows that's what people want. But he doesn't think they sound as good as his newer designs. So he keeps working to "improve" his designs. There's a fairly clear progression from his Neve preamps to his Focusrite preamps to his Amek preamps from "colored" to "clean" (to grossly oversimplify). Remember that when he designed the 1073 and everything he was going for the cleanest sound he could get. The color is a function of the limitations of the technology at the time.
Having said that I'm very interested in the Portico since he's put a transformer in there (unlike the Amek stuff)...a proverbial step "backwards" perhaps?
-Duardo