Balanced SET? North Audio

I know North Audio, have met Steve a number of times, heard some of his equipment and have been to his home/store. He is actually a service tech for an elevator company who eventually realized he could turn his expertise to designing and building audio equipment (absolutely nothing wrong in this). He is very opinionated on some subjects (eg. the cheapest Dale resistors are far superior sounding than Vishays etc.). I have not had any of his equipment in my own system, although I have heard several pieces in other high quality systems and thought they sounded okay. All of his equipment is expensive (by my standards, anyway). There are several people living in this area (Ottawa) who think very highly of his stuff.

Herman, my own opinion, based on speaking to Steve a number of times, there is a great deal of, ah, exageration in many of his claims. I was not impressed.