Me too. There are plenty of Klones on the market that are better built, sound the same and cost way less than the KTR.
There is a video out there where the dude from BYOC places an original silver Klon Centaur in one bypass loop and a BYOC Silver Pony in another. He plays and switches back and forth between each, keeping the settings on both pedals the same as one another.
Regardless of the range of the controls, there is no difference in the way they sound to me.
I built a Silver Pony II last month and took it to a friend's house. He has a KTR, a Rimrock Mythical Overdrive and an ARC Klone. Same thing. I couldn't tell which was which if I wasn't looking at the pedals.
It's a cool circuit and one that deserves recognition for being useful but man, I couldn't justify spending a crazy amount of money to get a "real" Klon.
I also read that J Rockett was the company tasked to build the first round of KTRs. The Archer line is probably as close to the original as any while staying in a reasonable price range.
