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RE: Agree completely...

Posted by RGA (R) on January 11, 2022 at 07:30:46

In Reply to: RE: Agree completely... posted by morricab on January 11, 2022 at 06:10:24:

Morricab that's fine you came you heard you like something else. That's the end of it.

But don't you "represent" these brands as a dealer importer? In a 6 moons review, it says "This by way of preamble for e-mailer Brad Morrical: "I would like to invite you to come to Zürich to my apartment for a listen and perhaps opportunity to review a product I'm now representing in Switzerland (I have hung up my reviewing hat for the time being). I am the exclusive Swiss dealer distributor for KR Audio, a brand I believe you know fairly well. I have on hand the relatively new KR Audio VA350i
integrated amplifier." https://6moons.com/audioreviews/kraudio5/350i.html

So it's not entirely without a conflict of interest if you dump on your high sales competition and one of the biggest selling tube brands in the world to help yourself. It's kind of bad form for a dealer to do such things. It's just not cool. It's like dealers who tell customers what they own is crap and they should spend 3 times more on something you are selling. C'mon.

Since the KR is ~$14,000USD and the Audio Note OTO Phono SE Sig is $6,500 (less if it's a line only version) and is a much lower power tube amplifier I would bloody well expect the more than double the price amp to sound better. And since you sell KR - I certainly won't take your word for it.

I have not heard every amplifier from every company so I try to audition their flagship products first to see if I want to explore further.

And our past on these forums indicates that we just don't share the same taste. It's like Kal Rubinson raving about B&W - meh - sorry but no.

I have heard the Apogee Scintilla and the Duetta II/Sig and a bunch of Magnepans and several Reference 3a speakers. And I heard these "before" I knew about AN so it is not a brand bias kind of deal. I was at the dealer to buy Reference 3a until I heard the AN K beat it. Not a drubbing but clearly better sound all around. The AN E did the same with the 20.1.

So since you would likely vehemently disagree with my take on the above paragraph then it is what it is. We go down this road every year or so for what 15 years now? I audition a lot of gear - if something impresses me enough I'll go that route.

One other problem is that some dealers are much MUCH better dealers at being able to demonstrate their wares. With tube amp makers who only make tube amps then if I say I auditioned an Apogee with a Krell - the apogee fan will say - "that amp sucks you need to hear them with XYZ = which of course is only sold at 2 dealers at the other end of the planet."

I have heard Ayon at a California Audio Show and in Bangkok. They were okay but I am not sure what would get you excited about them.

I might be on board with the big KR Monoblocks I have heard - But they were quite expensive - As I recall they were around the same price as the Onkaru II monoblocks (which are mid-level 3 in AN world). ~50,000USD. I liked them - I went back a few days later and they were sold so I didn't get a chance to hear them with my own music.

I am contemplating a pair of these or the Tomei Sochu. If KR is interested they can always contact me at the magazine. I'll give almost anything a try especially if I am considering being in the market for it.

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