You make good points there, Infinity_audio, and as I said previously, I am a fan of Red Rose gear. Good sounding stuff, on the high priced side, but a bargain compared to past ventures at ML and Cello, so who can complain?
Perhaps the issue that some have is the point that Red Rose was on the coy side of telling the world the gear was made in China. Not that a lot of us didn't know that anyway... Whereas Roy Hall has been more than upfront with the source of Music Hall products from day one coming from the Czech Republic(the analog side) or China(front end and amplification).
Roy has always been a stand up guy, who will look you straight in the eye and give you the true picture. I can think of one episode when I inquired where the $299 tuner was in terms of distribution. His answer was, "While I REALLY wanted to bring it to market, there just wasn't any demand." And, upon my assertions that I had been waiting to buy one said, "If you can get 200 people to tell me the same thing, I'll make sure it happens." I started a thread here on Audiogon about it in 2002, and got maybe 6 or 7 responses.
Perhaps the issue that some have is the point that Red Rose was on the coy side of telling the world the gear was made in China. Not that a lot of us didn't know that anyway... Whereas Roy Hall has been more than upfront with the source of Music Hall products from day one coming from the Czech Republic(the analog side) or China(front end and amplification).
Roy has always been a stand up guy, who will look you straight in the eye and give you the true picture. I can think of one episode when I inquired where the $299 tuner was in terms of distribution. His answer was, "While I REALLY wanted to bring it to market, there just wasn't any demand." And, upon my assertions that I had been waiting to buy one said, "If you can get 200 people to tell me the same thing, I'll make sure it happens." I started a thread here on Audiogon about it in 2002, and got maybe 6 or 7 responses.