Although some people like to cultivate myths about CTS or Bourne that sound soooooo much better
Just as well as there is cultivated myths about the quality of far east pots being equal to cts in quality...
Does anyone claim cts sound better, really?
My personal experience, repairing amps and replacing lots of pots.. cts lasts longer, period. They function better (not speaking of sound). I have only replaced a few couple of cts pots that could not be cleaned to function. One of the 5 amps I'm having for service today is a new amp 'assembled in the USA' with a chinese print, under warranty, needing two new pots. I think I have said this many times before, but I built some amps many years ago - similar but with a few 'key' components being different (like pots - one amp alpha, one cts etc..) and chinese/frar east pots really do not hold up. The Alpha amp now has one pot working properly (out of five) The same goes for guitars.
As for bourns, not sure how they are supposed to be different from other chinese stuff. I did order a batch of different bourns pots to put in an amp to test, but upon arrival the package said clearly made in china. They had the very same factory tool marks as another unbranded pot type a had a few of (that were made in the far east).
Sorry, just couldn't leave this alone - life is too short not to use cts pots! Actually, if life was
even shorter one might get away with cheap pots, but..