Koreans have a huge kink for vintage american audio. Old men with too much money coupled with not enough educational material translated from english has bred something of a pseudo scientific approach to audio when concerning that generation of audiophiles. They will go at great lengths to collect old american equipment and take care to do as minimum work as possible to restorate them in order to preserve its 'spirit' of the parts or the 'fidelity' of the wood because they believe the older the cabinet or the components are the better they sound. Ive met people who had spent $100k+ to ship old altec speakers from run down cinemas in the states to their upscale apartment in korea or choose old fischer or western electric with their leaky caps and whatnot as their equipment for their daily equipment and loving every moment of it.
To each their own i guess
To each their own i guess