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Nelson is a perfect example of minimalist engineering, and it’s seems to be common knowledge that feedback loops to increase gain and hifi typically don’t mix. More so in Phono stages but in general as well.

I always in the end let my ears decide and than my budget.

Spot on, my old co worker used to love doing the screw driver across the speaker terminals test to show how well designed the McIntosh amps were that we serviced.

It’s the ultimate Swiss Army knife for Audio, and honestly a steal at that price IMHO.

Over engineered would have been a better description. My personal experience simpler designs with minimal parts just seem to outperform more complex designs. That’s not to say the complex ones are bad either, if the complexity brought cost down and performance up.

It’s all good, and in the end the best engineering does not create the best sounding equipment. Way more examples of brilliant engineering that sound like total shit, than there are of simplistic fundamentally basic designs that sound spectacular. But that is subjective as well ;-)

I don’t see the hifi industry any more of a fraud than any other. Sure plenty of dirtbags, but that’s 10% of the population in general. And as far as adding some credibility back to reviewers, we are back to that 10% again. Also , applying exacting science to something subjective is a fraud in...