Buying Equipment Based on Philosophy???

Vendors all want you to feel a certain connection to the brand. 

This is marketing.....I'm not talking about marketing.....which is mostly Snake Oil.....I'm talking about a designer/owner who says...."Hey, I can do it better and here is how I do it"......In the case of John Curl at Parasound, he is just a hired gun who is really into capacitors....Or Nelson Pass who is into Class A and distortion.....or Jason at Schiit who is into anything no one else is doing!....And then we have the whole cottage industry built up around Class D techno9logy and they all have a different way of dealing with 1 and 0.......They have a philosophy.....A deep rooted reason why they do something......No marketing.....

Sure design philosophy matters I like triode wired Class A tube amps, and wide baffled speakers. A few other likes point me towards specific manufacturers. Then comes trial and error!

This is marketing.....I'm not talking about marketing.....which is mostly Snake Oil.....I'm talking about a designer/owner who says...."Hey, I can do it better and here is how I do it"....

That's exactly what marketing looks like my friend. Doesn't mean it's insincere, but it is absolutely marketing and messaging.

@erik_squires 

+1

My philosophy is if it sounds good in my system and it passes muster in my listening room, then it’s all good.

Yep I am Plato.