The current Webers are now made in spain off of the original designs - if yours is marked as such they are the good ones. Empi, of 70s VDub fame, now makes a Weber copy, with similar quality to what you described for the weberdirect carb. The original Weber DCEC 34/34 carb was supposed to be an emissions compliant version of the Weber 32/36 DGV series, but was never quite as good. The Solex 34 /34 carb was a work alike carb built by Solex, a weber competitor, and licensed their designs to Mikuni of that and their sidedraft carbs - that line was called Mikuni - Solex. Solex has been gone longer than the Italian Webercompany, but the Spanish Webers are supposed to be the best of the weber type carbs made today.