Opinions about Daniel Hertz

I concur about Huff human side and good will persona...

I dont bother with reviewers most of the times save a very rare exceptions..

I bought a Douk product a preamplifier at 50 bucks after his review of one at 100 bucks ... Everything he said was true... This does not means that all Douk product are all good and not junk...But some are not junk at all ...It seems too many good chinese engineers had no jobs elsewhere for some time and go working for Nobsound ... I dont know... There is way much engineers in China that look for a low payed job than in US by statistic...

Huff stated that the Aavik U-150 integrated was the best integrated he’d ever heard.....he was right. I bought one and can confirm it’s the best integrated I’ve ever heard and will never sell it .He’s a reviewer and as such, he has to move to different equipment on a constant basis....I love his take on things and I love watching Steve G also.....They are entertainers that review audio gear...no more, no less. .......Is there anyone else that will say something positive. As far as Levinson goes, I have no comment.

You must do your own research instead of waiting for a reviewer to do it for you...

The gear price dont matter ...

Acoustics basic matter much...Why? because everybody buy with his money budget... Then the only way to have a good S.Q. is not the gear pieces you will be able to buy by itself alone , and  there is always better one anyway  ... The only way is learning how to control the mechanical, electrical, and acoustical working dimensions of the room/system/ears...BEFORE upgrading if upgrading appear necessary ...

Quit reviewers listening , or listen to them for their human side ...

Ugh, Ivwant to like Huff, but ever few months he talks about his end-game system ant then changes it. He was never gonna replace his Fleetwoods, etc, then the DH stuff can’t be beat, ad nauseum. cmon Steve, which is it? And yes, Levinson’s Red Rose Audio was re-branded chi-fi stuff, so dh is highly suspect to me…

You cannot be a reviewer and stay truthful to a system ...

I love Steve Huff as an individual ...

But his room is not a dedicated acoustic room...

And then he changes his flavor each few weeks reviewing, not realizing that we reach an optimal someday with a refinement and optimization with a well chosen system ONCE FOR ALL ...

At least he is honest and repeat multiple times that price tag does not equal acoustic satisfaction nor musical satisfaction ...

My own system cost 1000 bucks... I live very well with it in ectasy, (am i deaf ?😊 ) i modified my speakers and headphone and i created an acousric small room for it ...it takes me time... I was not changing my speakers/headphone/amp/dac each month ... Tuning a room is possible and specific to one system ...you must learn and live with this system to optimize it ..

Huff live and made his money with these reviews ... He is as Guttenberg very human but they sell gear , acoustic information must be gathered by us for a specfic system with which we will live with ...

Purchasing 40 amplifiers is the work of sellers and reviewers or a mental disease or acoustic ignorance ... Pick your choice ...My hobby is music and acoustic not buying gear ...

Huff just reviewed a 100 bucks Douk tube amplifier and rave about it ... I just buy a tubes preamplifier from Douk at 50 bucks for my small active speakers ... No comparison with the Ember amplifier i paid 400 dollars and i sold it thinking that if tubes sound as this it is perhaps not for me ( i tried 50 tubes) .... The Douk come with chinese tubes not the best but i will keep it so good it is in my system ... low cost chinese product dont equal junk all the times now ... It is simple a good engineer in America is rarer than in China now , because of the population size and the education race in China society... In the last decade many good chineese engineers worked in the audio chinese industry because there is many engineers in China ...They must live and audio chinese industry benefit now from it ...Douk equalizer 7 band rival a more costly one as the Schiit ...

i bought also a 50 bucks S. S. fosi pre-amp very good for my secondary headphone (movie)..

If my system was a 20,000 bucks one , i will buy a Berning tube ZOTL pre-amplifier and called it job done as the one i returned one month ago because it lack synergy with my too hungry too hard to drive AKG K340 ( i kept then the headphone out of my Sansui Alpha the TOP of their chain for decades ) ...

I wouldn’t trust anything coming from Steve huff’s mouth anymore.