Hey, if you enjoy drinking a $90 bottle of wine more than a $10 bottle, who am I to criticize you?
I worked as a salesman at a high-end audio shop in DC, one of the early adopters of an "electronic A-B" system, that allowed the customer to compare amps, pre-amps, sources and speakers. I setup a custom with a McIntosh MC2200 solid state and a high-end tube amp, handed him the "clicker" and let him relax and compare the amps. He told me that he thought the tube amp sounded smoother, ordered it from me. Later the repair tech asked me if I knew that there was something wrong with the "electronic AB" system, some problem with the connection to the tube amp prevented it from being connected, so the customer was actually listening to the MC2200 the whole time!
Interesting.
I worked as a salesman at a high-end audio shop in DC, one of the early adopters of an "electronic A-B" system, that allowed the customer to compare amps, pre-amps, sources and speakers. I setup a custom with a McIntosh MC2200 solid state and a high-end tube amp, handed him the "clicker" and let him relax and compare the amps. He told me that he thought the tube amp sounded smoother, ordered it from me. Later the repair tech asked me if I knew that there was something wrong with the "electronic AB" system, some problem with the connection to the tube amp prevented it from being connected, so the customer was actually listening to the MC2200 the whole time!
Interesting.