Owners of "Giant Killers"?

Mitch2, despite the tone, your reply is scarily close to what I expect might be the truth. I've used Q-tips and the "other brands", and the other brands can't begin to measure up to the performance of Q-tips.

Thanks for those who have posted about their Giant Killers. It proves the possibility of the best for less.

Tvad, no tone intended, just having fun. Good thread. My giant killers would have to be the Luminous Audio Synchestra balanced IC's, I can't imagine much better at a very reasonable cost. And yes, the Q-tip brand does blow away the competition.

I like the stock Njoe Tjoeb (sp? 750 ) better than my 2200 list arcam fmj23 cd player and I liked my arcam better than a 5000 list unit. And, I like the acoustic zen hologram speaker cables (1000 list) better than 3 different 3000 ish cables I've tried. Also I like the Hagerman Trumpet phono pre-amp (2800 ish list with step up tranny) too well to make more costlier units of interest. And I like the Rogue Zeus / Magnum 99 amplification combo better than a 3x costlier combination that was second runner up.
Giant killers? I dunno, but it seems like there is not a correlation between price and performance after you get to the 'very good' stage and the game is about finding what you like.

I 2nd the Q-tips suggestion although the NOS ones are much better than the current production. I find that the plastic ones are far too "soft" to my ears the paper ones are better...but man...the old wood q-tips...there was nothing like them...all the attributes of a fine audiophile product.

and they made great blow gun darts as a kid too!

I've got some slightly used NOS Q-Tips that I don't need anymore. I'll let em'go for the right price. Ping me off the thread and lets talk deal.

Marco