"Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers

Slaw,

Can I call you Cole? Anyway, I'm not sure if you've been reading through the rest of this thread but Bombaywalla already left some feedback relatively similar to this and I have addressed it.

I've been at this hobby for the better part of 15 years but perhaps only seriously for the past 5 years or so when my career began to take off. I have more money than some people but by no means am I wealthy. I do agree with you on some points that you make but at the same time I see no reason not to ask others to share their knowledge and experiences over the web to help others make more educated decisions.

Is that not the whole point of a forum? I can guarantee you that they do not exist solely for the purpose of condemning the curiosity and ignorance of perfect strangers to perhaps validate your own. But like you said, I should disregard the feedback of people I have never met. Yourself included.

I would not envy myself if I were to walk into a retailer and have a biased sales person make recommendations to me without having done any homework for myself before hand. I do have a LOT to learn but it would be asinine to suggest that one person knows everything.

Is that not the whole point of a forum?

Bingo!
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This forum serves as a brainstorming session. You get different perspectives, but in the final analysis you make your own purchasing decisions. I think it's great when individuals provide constructive feedback as opposed to criticism.

Well, I do know everything. And everything is that there is some degree of objectivity in assessing information from varying sources. The more the information, the more objective the assessment. We are after all part of the same gene pool. The key is to research sufficiently long enough/thoroughly to get a take on all aspects/perspectives you relate to. I have never been disappointed with a purchase after having done so. And I've made many.

"The more the information, the more objective the assessment."

Why? Information isn't generic. There's a difference between more info and the right info.

"The key is to research sufficiently long enough/thoroughly to get a take on all aspects/perspectives you relate to."

Unless the research includes listening, its not worth all that much.