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Buying Equipment Based on Philosophy???

I realized that I buy most of my HiFi equipment based on the designers/ manufacturers philosophy.....Example: Nelson Pass,Pass Labs "First Watt"....Jason at Schiit,......David Haffler with Dynaco......Richard Schram/John Curl, Parasound...Etc... These designers/owners/manufacturers have a deep philosophy about the direction of their designs and their products. I realized this while looking for yet another power amplifier. I really didn't know much about Parasound. Then I saw a YouTube of Richard Schram talking about Parasounds history, direction and marketing/design philosophy......Impressive what he has done and such clear thinking about his company. So therefor, a Halo A23+ is on the norizon! 

 What say you? Does any of this matter in your buying decisions?

rbertalotto

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I pay respect to the design approach.   I like simple , point to point designs and wanted something DHT that only had one tube per channel , a true SET

This was never more true than when I commissioned an amp to be built.   After some phone discussions and texts I knew we were on the same page.   

It was scary buying something sight unseen  but he hit it out of the park and is building me a DHT preamp.   

I'm going to build an Amp Camp Amp solely because it comes from the mind of Nelson Pass.....

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