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In the Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company

Post Subject: Preparing a new price rangePosted by Stitch on: 8/20/2013

I listened to exactly that combination for a longer time (Wilson Alexandria + ML3...) and the "review" (let's replace it with product placement) is the same joke than Harley with ML2.2 linked with the Magico Speakers (simply THE mismatch)....

Anyway, it is simply another example (from countless) that the reviewers are the right hand of Manufacturers. That is no real secret, but even 2013 there are enough endless Stupidos (= Audiophiles) who believe this written nonsense and implement it as their own - matching - Religion. But, the background for these "reviews" is much more simple: The reviewers want to open a new price range for High End, they want to show everybody that the next unit is always better and the higher the price is, the better it is. The more you can afford, the better you can enjoy listening to music. Any critics can be killed with the simple sentence "you are jealous because you can't afford it", those who do will never write a critical comment because they are not able to detect it. They are not interested in it. It is the next toy after the exotic car and like everything in our life, it is great to get the respect from an audiophile forum (Hey, great, congratulation, experienced audiophile.....blubber). We can't blame them because they get the result they always knew (I knew that the Alexandria/Continuum, ML3, DarTZeel is so super, that's why I bought it even before all those other idiots knew it....), that is the idea behind Marketing since its existence. Done right. Those richies have only ONE "logic" in a discussion: When someone says, that he has something better, they accept it at once, WHEN IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE But they go totally nuts when you say, hey that match is BS, I had it and went for a unit at 1/5th of the price and it is absolutely superior.
So, where is the difference? There is indeed none and when, then there is only one: When it is a well known Manufacturers (say, Audio Research, Lamm, VTL, Krell and so on) and when they want to launch a product in such a high price range, everyone will get a top "review". Simple as that. A newcomer has to look for an Importer with good contacts to those guys who are able to identify a pencil after 3 of 4 tries. Otherwise he will fail.
I don't care but I was wondering, when that - Fremer - combo gave him superior results (ML3+Alexandria ) for nearly 300k$, then I can say (because I know it and I know what is possible) that he has absolutely no idea from a real good High End Reproduction. Or, in short to all of them (there are more than you think): Suckers
They like it and feel good. That's the way it is.

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