These customers get fed a paraphysical wife’s tale so they shell out the 100k. Also not all rich people are stupid and want to throw their money out the window for no value (there is sometimes a reason they got rich ;-))
Yes but modern life is complex , there will be at least one subject in life where youre a complete moron whoever you are
and then someone is there to fleece you . even more so if you are rich .
What to say about the ones the helps the con artist ?
The cargo cult engineering in high end has traveled several generations now ,so if you we give gryphon the benefit of doubt (which we really should not ) their designer could be confused enough to actually believe in the no negative feedback myth and others and also "develop" doing sighted testing of boutique components etc.
But no magazine or website should help them market these monstrosities , the review should be "no no no, get out of here".
Interesting remark of low negative feedback design can be the culprit for the channel imbalance .
it's funny how this type of design makes audiophile myths come true .
* you get low PSRR , so suddenly the powersupply do have an disproportionate impact and needs to be overdesigned .
* component matching suddenly gets very important , type and brand may do something unexpected . the performance may depend on you selecting and fine tuning the circuit.
Normally it's the design of the circuit itself that sets the performance, the feedback keeps everything in place
* these type of designers usually also like wide bandwidth design to further increase the risk instability and rfi/emi .
* The lore also suggest that you have to use discrete component's instead of OP amps, even when the best choice would be an OP ?
* devices before and after the product may impact it's performance ?
* much more , I'm not an amp designers.
FFS use a lot of feedback and as many integrated circuits as possible , keeps the guesswork to a minimum.
These products are designed like running a marathon on skis , it can be done but why ?
