Brand Synergy


What’s your thoughts on brand synergy?
20-30 years ago when I tried to persuade brand synergy I thought it very important but not anymore. Now my approach is more customised and brand synergy not important at all for me. Is brand synergy something more than just tech specs matching for you?
surfmuz

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:) not sure if universal remotes will work equally with any component, specially with high end tubed staff !?
@ghdprentice 
So, if you were to put together a really high system you had to pick and choose different companies components.
Totally agreed on this one. I’ll say when you go by brand synergy pattern, you just rely on someone else tase and if you like it you like it, but if you want to experiment and create something original there is no reason to go by pattern. 

@russ69 
+1 here.
and even more, some gear manufacturers comes out with a bold statements like for example “Great British Sound” in form of a sign on the face plates. Honestly, I don’t give a clue how they determinate this.
@rixthetrick
i also have one (the CXU) nothing against it. Very good player, superb universal machine, but I still keep wandering what the heck is that British Sound. :)
@rixthetrick
I’m not so sure about that PS Audio synergy supremacy. I had a chance to break up that synergy and squeeze in two different preamps instead Signature in BHK250/BHK Signature combo and both of them outperform Signature. One was Modwright LS 36.5 and the other was Cary Audio SLP-05.