So many companies start with good intentions.
Hire great electrical engineers with audio experience.
Then it's handed over to the mechanic and design group.
Then the marketing and finance group gets involved.
Then it's handed off to a contract manufacturer.
That's the product we finally recieve.
Unless it isn't. In high end audio, it might have taken a short cut and simply built with the good intention (bypassing most of the points above). People that get into high end audio because they like it and want to make the best they can will make something a lot better and for the same money (or less) than those that got into it to make money. That is true of all professions BTW. High end audio is driven by intention and nothing else.