How well respected our EAR products

I had a CD player once. Great sound. But after a while it developed problems reading CDs. The company was no help. The U.S. representative was great and put me in touch with their #1 technician. The problem turned out to be a manufacturing flaw that was relatively easy (and inexpensive) to fix. I also owned one of their amplifiers. Again, great sound, but a real pain to remove the tube cages to change a tube that had become damaged during shipping.

I have never sold or owned any EAR (Esoteric Audio Research) gear, but have listened to it many times.

Tim de Paravicini is one of the best and brightest designers in audio...has been since the early 70's.

EAR has always gotten excellent reviews and seems to be held in very high regard.

I used to have 509 monos on my studio monitors....never had any trouble with them....still sorry I sold them.