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See my discussion on my Mark Levinson 335 troubles:
Of course I studied all the reviews in all the magazines before buying this amp. Although it's not up there with the most exclusive, it was - and still is - pretty exotic for me, price-wise. Turns out so many of this brand  miserably fail and become huge losses to their owners! It is utterly incomprehensible to me that all those 'high end' reviews don't seem to give any consideration to reliability, durability and long term value...

The high prices of components in TAS doesn't bother me. However, TAS does an incredible disservice to the community by covering the SAME manufacturers over and over again.  It's disgraceful actually. 
I would love to know the percentage of brands covered in relation to the amount of brands available.  It would be pretty scary, I think.
It would be like being a spice enthusiast and reading only about salt and pepper every month.

They are only Interested in covering manufacturers that advertise in their publication.

.. from audio to cars, there is no way this thread will end (somehow I suspect taters keeps on digging on those rhetorical Freudian questions)

Expensive cars is all about emotions, let’s be honest, how many of Ferrari F40 owners have driven them on a race circuit?
But for those who appreciate the laws of physics, why not give it a spin?
I had the most fun with a BMW M5 drifting on the Nurburgring (you can also call for the Nurnburgring-taxi and be chauffeured at real high speed) and would do it in a heart-beat instead of upgrading another piece of metal in my setup.

>>audio porn: well not the readers but the reviewers are confused. Some reviews start out like a strip tease, the first paragraphs is just setting the right mood and then slowly, oh so very slowly describing the device, sorry beast, that exuberates masculinity with every pound of its polished and Swiss CNC’ed aluminium body....
Nope, I would rather have the Porsche phallus instead, a 911 would be great but a roadster would do. Thank you!

Some manufacturers are selling a few units each year at mega bucks to keep things going. People are willing to buy them. Reviewers are willing get these demos for 6 months at a time