I agree, but I hate the ignorant people who will only try/listen to the name brands
Like a mate of mine who thought I was stupid to buy an ENGL 'cause he'd never heard of them, and then he said that it couldn't be as good as his AVT 'cause it's not a marshall...I proceeded to crank it with him stood next to it, and he soon shut up :lol:
haha, agreed. I tried my avt next to my engl the other night, and it was pretty obvious who won. At all volume levels.
Sambo/Feline: agreed.
The way I look at it is this: the way we found these slightly more obscure/less mainstream/boutique (no offence meant to BK, you know what I mean, by obscure I mean better, lol) companies was by being cynical of the major companies and trying out everything we could get our hands on (I know I haven't tried BK's, but I prefer some other "boutique" companies (EDIT: not necessarily pickups) to their mainstream equivalent). We'd be betraying this system of thinking if, once we found a good boutique company, we stopped this objective (at least, as objective as it can be)method of judging kit and merely became fanboys.
And while I'm sure Tim likes the sales, I'm sure he'd much prefer to be getting sales because people have tried all the pickups that are available (within reason) and liked his best, rather than because they're all fanboys... Also, it helps us because it means Tim needs to be on his toes with good new models... :twisted:
Just my two cents on the matter. Apologies for the overuse of brackets and flowery language, I tend to type as I think... :oops: :lol:
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