Producing highly regarded components for a number of years.

Highly regarded by whom? The reviewers who would nto know how to do a proper comaprison so they are not biased?



I'll let Ole Lund Christensen of GamuT speak to the issue.
http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.pl?f...en&r=&session=


His quote:
So my brain was trying hard to ignore the message from my ears, I was hearing a major improvemnt of the sound.

No mention of him using bias controls to verify what he thought he heard, instead he accepts what he imagined. Not a very good engineer, is he? He has no idea of the basics of science in listening.