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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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rbertalotto OP
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Well, this certainly is intentional. Vendors all want you to feel a certain connection to the brand.  I mean, that's the entire purpose of branding.  To sell you an idea on a name or symbol which you want to associate yourself with due to ..... whatever.

This is missing the point. I'm not buying from a person or company because they are nice people....This ain't about lollypops and roses.....I'm buying because their design "philosophy" has merit on an engineering level. 

rbertalotto OP
137 posts
 

Vendors all want you to feel a certain connection to the brand. 

This is marketing.....I'm not talking about marketing.....which is mostly Snake Oil.....I'm talking about a designer/owner who says...."Hey, I can do it better and here is how I do it"......In the case of John Curl at Parasound, he is just a hired gun who is really into capacitors....Or Nelson Pass who is into Class A and distortion.....or Jason at Schiit who is into anything no one else is doing!....And then we have the whole cottage industry built up around Class D techno9logy and they all have a different way of dealing with 1 and 0.......They have a philosophy.....A deep rooted reason why they do something......No marketing.....

 

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