IMO he is a very good designer among other things and titles, and royalty aside...LOL...well, he also likes Rolex, and Stax, Corvette, and Mark Levinson amps, like SACD and has very expensive TT in the basement, he is the person responsible for some of the better "speced" amps built in headphone amplification, his amps really measure very good....but unfortunately numbers say sometimes too little about the sound, and as a result some audiophiles may like them, and others may not, some find his designs rather analytical, and lacking of musicality, but that is another point of view for future discussions....