As goofy as the hi-fi thing is, it can't match the electric guitar scene. JHS (the pedal company) owner Josh Scott is always up to something both interesting and funny. People always claimed how an expensive tube amp couldn't be accurately copied by a digital effects amp. On his YT show he always had a pic of a well respected tube amp, while playing and reviewing stuff. Folks assumed it was the amp he was using. Always got great comments.
Later, he admitted to viewers that for the past year he had really been using a Kemper SS modeling amp, emulating the tube amp, which was just for show. Scandal ensued. LOL
Recently he AB'd an old 'throw-away' pedal that typically sold for thirty to fifty bucks on the used marketplace, comparing it to some high-enders, like the 'holy-roller grail' Klon pedal (that sells for four or five large, used--depending on whether you have the original box). No one was able to tell the difference between the five thousand dollar Klon, and the fifty dollar Bad Monkey.
Now, thousands of Monkey's had been sold over the past two decades, and although everyone had one, few used it. So with this new information, what did Monkey owners do? They immediately took them out of their closets, marked them up, and proceeded to list them on Reverb for three hundred dollars or more. Never let a good opportunity go to waste. Or, they dug it out from under the bottom of their pedal-pile, put it back in the loop, and said to themselves with great satisfaction, "Yes..., I always knew this had that Klon vibe!"
Sometimes it's embarrassing being both a hi-fi and an electric guitar hobbyist.
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