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RE: Help me pick SET monoblocks

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In Reply to: RE: Help me pick SET monoblocks posted by morricab on August 26, 2017 at 04:44:47

LOL - Only certain McIntosh sells well. Soundhounds sold an $8000 MSRP amp for $2000 (and it was STILL a current model). Some hack on a forum got pissed at me and phoned them to which they confirmed - that's sucky resale value.

There are plenty of nostalgic collector tube amps and LS-3/5a, Quad ESL 57 type speakers. Reminders of childhood dreams or whatnot. Again different thing.

Again TAKE YOUR PERSONAL OPINION OF SOUND OUT OF THE EQUATION. You say they suck but not everyone agrees with you - plenty of people happen to like the sound of McIntosh tube amplifiers - they're not my cup of tea either BUT they're successful and have been for decades. Plenty of reviewers like the sound of it better than most everything else too. I don't love them and you don't love them but you are pompous ass if you think "If I like it it is good, and if I don't it stinks"

I wax poetic on AN and some other brands and sure I will tell someone that I like an AN E a helluva lot more than a B&W N801 but the N801 isn't crap because I don't like it. It's not "not successful" because I don't like it. I am not going to deny B&W, McIntosh, Magnepan and numerous others their due just because I don't happen to enjoy their takes on music reproduction.

Sales Success isn't a direct indicator to good sound - but a lack of success isn't a direct indicator of good sound either. Gee these five companies went out of business (or sorry lost an entire continent because no one bought any of the) they MUST BE FABULOUS because they didn't sell against any of the competition!!

PS: My Wharfedale Vanguard (E series) from the 70s and 80s has a company that does nothing else but restore this ONE line of Wharfedales. That in no way makes them "still relevant or still on the map" - My dealer SOundhounds is a full (and I mean FULL) restoration and repair outlet - they can repair and restore EVERYTHING including any Apogee, Quad, Acoustat) That does not mean any of these old things are in any way shape or form on the map. They're getting they're broken down speakers fixed. No more to read into it than that.

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