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RE: Help me pick SET monoblocks

See its funny. If Fred replaces an Einstein with AN...Fred being a reviewer I can site as a real person and one can read his review of the comparison...well he only did so because he was bored. When the HK Einstein dealer buys AN for his own house and all the other people working there and NOT an Einstein let me guess he's wrong too.

But, when it's YOU and your mysterious buddies then they are all of course perfect decision makers and infallable and never wrong.

PS, judging sound quality has absolutely no relation to being an engineer.

I just spent this afternoon listening to a complete Einstein flagship system and KR recently. Meh.

The M3 eats the Einstein for lunch. IMO. I stress IMO. Doesn't mean Einstein sucks it means I preferred the M3 in a big way over it.

I already told you which Odeon I heard so why go down that road again.

Stereophile sums it up nicely and correctly. If they're such great quality speaker line why would all 7 dealers dump them? People came in and heard them and all bought something else because the something else was clearly better.

If Odeon was in fact better they would have 7 dealers now and perhaps more since 2003 if they were prized by anyone.

I mean since our discussions back in the day, AN has gone from 1 plant to 4 and quintupled their workforce.

So doing the math on the audiophile world market is on my side, not yours. My opinions on sound quality held. Yours went out of business.

And yes AN amps come in different transformer levels based on price. That's fine. No one should expect massive 50hib c core etc etc in a $1500 amp. KR sells amps well above $40,000. Ayon in today's dollars would be $12000 - the OTO SE is $6k. I mean it's nonsensical.


Lastly this is what makes me wonder how Berkely gives out degrees like cracker jack.

""Third. what you think of the Einstein is immaterial""

Actually it is material to me when I am spending money. Your opinion on Einstein is absolutely not one wit more material than mine. You are the LAST person I would go to for advice on anything audio related.

""it is a very good sounding preamp that is widely regarded and highly respected...what Fred Crowder did doesn't concern me.""

See anyone with a science degree or any degree can't possibly make such retarded arguments. It baffles me that Berkley has turned into a degree Pez dispensary?

Your arguments would have gotten you laughed out of any basic logic 101 course.

Here is why you are an abject failure at science. Berkley should request their degree back - Sagan is rolling in his grave. This is your continual argument every time we go round.

A) Einstein is widely regarded as good. So because Morricab likes Einstein then Einstein and the review press that support it is good.

Can you not see why you are hopeless at basic logic? No? Still no?

Let's spell it out so even a Berkley grad can understand. X is good because it gets good reviews and is highly regarded - that is Morricab's logic argument.

If X is true(good) then if Y gets good reviews (and far more of them) and is highly regarded (arguably more highly regarded) then basic logic dictates that Y is just as good if not even better - regardless of what ANY one individual thinks. It is objectively and logically true that if X is good Y is just as good (if not better).

Why is Y better than X? If it can be established that Y exceeds the criteria of X. Thus, if X gets 5 great reviews and one reviewer buys it - it is a highly regarded product.

If Y gets 20 great reviews and 4 reviewers buy it and Y also sells many times more of them (to audiophiles with serious money) then it can be safely argued that Y is more highly regarded. It doesn't matter if RGA or Morricab like X or Y or one over the other. Being a quasi decent scientist you take your own self bias (opinion) the F out of the equation and you OBJECTIVELY look at the data.

Doing something dumb like citing Bose sales is also logically vapid because Bose isn't in the same sphere of the target market (audiophiles) - Bose sells to GQ buyers and non audiophiles. So while they sell the most they are not selling to audiophiles. And even if one insists on keeping Bose sales as an argument then it still doesn't help the initial argument and is even worse logically because it would only mean that Bose has to be considered good like X and Y.

Example
I am not a fan of Magnepan sound (it does zilch for me and it fatigues me (at least the .6 series) but I am not mentally retarded so I don't say - Magnepan sucks - it may suck to me but I can admit the speaker brand is excellent based on the fact that it is successful and has sold for decades and has a huge vocal fanbase of lovers.

I am in no way bothered by Magnepan fans - I am curious as to why you get tyrannical when someone likes anything you don't like though. PS it's quite fine that you don't like AN - just like I don't care for Magnepan - it's a shame you're not big enough to admit they are well reviewed, highly regarded and very successful - it's like you can't admit that 2+2 equals 4.

I don't get into this argument to defend Audio Note or tell you that you should buy it over whatever you like - I get into it not to convert you - I just don't get why you can't admit that just because you don't like it you can't be big enough to admit they are highly regarded, well reviewed, and successful. I can say that about a lot of brands in all areas from photography gear, to cars, to watches, to audio gear. I don't like Rolex. But I can admit they are a great watch maker, successful and highly regarded. I just don't like the look of them so it all goes for nothing for me.


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