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Re: I guess you just don't get it

Oh I get it. Most certainly.

Poorly designed products that are unreliable as hell, with huge price tags. Questionable that they sound any better than a correctly designed similiar circuit. I don't believe for a moment that a 6550, or any tube for that matter, sounds better when it is run well beyond its design limits. Kind of like a car engine runs best when it is way into the red and is about to blow! Not many folks would buy into this nonsense, but for some reason when it comes to audiophiles and their toys, they do. Amazing really.

But the audio rags extoll the virtues of this junk, and the dewy eyed guys with more money than common sense buy into this nonsense and just has to have this amp!

All part of the audiophile nonsense that keeps many a company going. High maintenance is one thing. Retubing an ARC Reference is not going to be cheap. But at least you are not required to do this every few hundred hours.

High end audio is one of the few rich boy sports where customers are sold unreliable, poorly designed garbage, and walk out the store with a smile on their face! The fact that the client is rich seems to be the excuse for ripping the guy(or gal) off!


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