Brand New Western Electric WE 91E 300B Valve Amplifier

January 8, 2019

2018 saw Western Electric get their much loved 300B valves back into production, plus the brand has also made great progress with a new integrated amplifier, the 91E.

The Western Electric WE 91E was recently taken from prototype stage three into pre-production. The 91E embodies a new proprietary Class A2 parallel feed current source topology (patent pending), combined with toroidal output transformers, and microprocessor controlled automatic bias.

Western Electric told us: “It will achieve in excess of twenty watts per channel—a never before realized, revolutionary level of performance for the 300B in a single-ended circuit”.

We now have a first look at a 3D rendering of the final design, which, say Western Electric, is for listeners who appreciate luxurious amplifier design balanced with their sturdy, function-over-form style.