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I really don't understand what we're hoping to achieve here if the foundation of the question is that documentation of the characteristics of interest are unavailable.
Are we hoping that the manufacturers are going to pop in and tell us that they have documented all the minor, tertiary characteristics of their components which absolutely none of their customers have ever questioned?
And why? So we can clone something, and sound exactly like a guitarist who's been dead for 30 years?
Personally, I'm not worried about it. When I built my Marshall clone, I didn't bother figuring out the composition of each component, or worrying about the undocumented characteristics. Why? Because Jim Marshall didn't do too much worrying about that either. A lot of vintage amps of the same model sound different from one another. That's the nature of the beast, and we embrace it.
If I select a component that doesn't sound good, I'll change it.
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