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In Reply to: RE: Tellig was always having fun posted by rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com on August 09, 2016 at 05:46:20
That's probably true, and I remember reading his review as somewhat tongue in cheek when he pondered if the 3400 was "Better than the Levinson?" which was a $25,000 two box CD player.
I can cut him some slack for having some fun, but he also did a frenzy whip with a B&K amp that was hand tweaked (bias increase?) for him by B&K, which made it sound better. Tellig admitted it in his review, so it wasn't a credibility issue, but B&K balked at doing the tweak for the masses (I'm guessing because of reliability issues).
So his review was essentially a "Here's a giant killer amp, but you can't get one like mine", which, for me anyway, put Tellig into the hype category.
My CD-3400 saw relatively little use, but just stopped working one day. I still have it in a box somewhere.
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Generating hype was how Sam made his money. I don't ever remember him recommending something that was bad, but he did overpraise things. Sill, I generally found him entertaining and did buy somethings that he recommended, that I liked quite bit. I agreed with his premiss (at the time) that you did not have to spend the value of a car to get good sound. I still think you don't, but the market has polarized between dirt cheap and very expensive since then.
Dave
Good point!
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