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In Reply to: I've never owned a Ferrari posted by Frihed89 on September 4, 2015 at 23:35:45:
I think the point was lost along the way - if measurements were the thing that truly mattered the most then Audio Note and most of the SET makers would be using Torroids and MOSFETs - so if you are going to say 'we're choosing lesser measuring components because they sound better' then it stands to reason that you would continue to do that even within the world or EI and C-Core transformers.
So it comes back to the sound of the product. I've heard a lot of products over the years and to me the onus is on the attacker to bring out a fully realized product that they can demonstrate to me sounds better for the same price as what AN puts out. Not a DIY project where you have not factored in any of your costs. DIYers never account for their tools, their electricity or their salary per hour.
AN probably doesn't want to say - but I have seen a number of their parts being used in a number of competing high end machines - some actually advertise that they use Audio Note Silver or Volume knobs or whatever - but I am sure there are ten times that number who don't advertise it because AN is their competition. It was like the American car company that had exactly ONE car in their entire line-up that got a recommendation in the ultra tough (only in Canada) car guide 'The Lemon Aid' and it turned out the car was a copy of the Suzuki Swift (made by Suzuki for GM) from Japan with a different name badge on the front. Ditto Pontiac Vibe which was a Toyota Matrix.
I know lots of comparisons of Caps have been done over the years and AN's caps usually come out at or very close to the best in the world - and some of those cost a LOT of money - and the same argument can be made - such and such AN cap measures the same as something for half the price - but in the auditions the AN cap was much preferred even though it measures the same. So the benefit of the doubt applies when talking about the transformers I should think.
Warren Jarrett posted a discussion about AN Transformers on the Steve Hoffman Forum -
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