You have here a perfect opportunity to learn and design something completely new, and what do you choose? to clone something you haven't ever even heard?
What the heck is wrong with you people!
HAHA! Of course I have complete faith that this sounds fantastic. Seems Like "you people" have lost faith in a lot more than just cloning audio equipment. In my mind the stuff I SHOULD be cloning is the stuff I've never heard before. Maybe I'm just crazy. I don't have an extra 10,000$ sitting around to buy one.

And now that I think about it, every project I have built I've never heard the originals. NEVER. 1176, SSL comps, API pre, MElcor pres , 990 opamps, Eq's, UPGrading equipment. If "you people"

think you have to hear a piece of equipment before you can work on it, then nothing would ever get done, and no new designs would ever get made!