Jadis JP200 and Marantz 7 clones from Hong Kong

The only way you're going get close to the Jadis sound is use big specially wound transformers which cloners will have a tough time getting heir hands on.

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HK,Nigeria,late night programming,clean white teeth in only 2 days,step right up ladies and gentlemen.Its a mad world and always has been,especially now with all the cyber-pretenders.Anytime a wrestler,a weightlifter and an actor can be Governor,you got to figure its best to keep truckin and dont think twice their legit on the other side of the asylum either......

Bartokfan: Forgive my poor communication skills.
"You-know-who" does not refer to noble Jadis but to our "friends" in Hong Kong.
Speaking of "friends", remember the scene in "Mars Attacks!"
when the little people where scampering around with a loudspeaker blurting:
"Don't run, we are your friends!"?

P. S. Some day hope to own Jadis 845 monos...

I see real great comments and feedbacks in here. I really apppreciate that.

Althought I still know nothing about other's experience with those "re-eningeered" designs, I see an interesting point here. Would any decent implementation of those "re-engineered" designs amount to anything?

If you happen to look at those listings in eBay, you'd see the parts are actually not so bad. Of course, like Kw6 said, the quality transformers could not be reproduced in those budget-minded imitations. So it's expected to be (several) cuts below the real thing, but could it compare favorably with, say, any decent $2000 preamps out there, simply because it's still fundamentally a great design?