Madog hing, sorry, I am afreid that I could not 100% agree with you. By my personal point of view, the reasons of why people here wouldn't like to discuss Accuphase are,
- Most of the persons here prefer Europe and US hi-fi gears than Japanese ones, even they have to agree that Accuphase is also a high quality pros.
- Limited by current economic situattion, most of local audiophiles are unable to spend too much for a sets of Hi-End gears, even everybody is dreaming to have one.
- Regarding to recent China History during the Second World War, a lot of people hate Japanese, that's true, therefore, people wouldn't like to see, to listen, to experiencing any Japanese gears. To my strange, in the mean time, most of people are using Japanese DC...
Based upon the above, I think what Shanghaiman want to do is not too bad, at least, timing, only timing can prove everything.