Why hasnt yamamoto A-o11 gotten more love?

For Brawny,, maybe going backwards to a primitive device is good. "finding one's roots" and all that stuff...
I am buying a $200. tubetoy (NOT this one, a buffer..) and I do not care about the measurements... If it sucks.. no worse than a cable I learn to hate. It may just be enough fun to be worth it.
(As an aside, in another forum, someone suggested why not just buy a product with the XXX built in... certainly! but that costs THOUSANDS, where this costs a few hundred)

La45,
I will let you know my impressions once I get this unit and put some hours on it.

Brawny, I`ll take my chance with a company that has multiple rave reviews on numerous components by a variety of reviewers and current owners based on it`sonics. Even the unit that measured poorly per stereophile sounded superb according to Art Dudley who actually LISTENED to it. So if it sounds wonderful but measures bad then the hell with the measurements.

I think it's probably not been reviewed in any English language magazine so hasn't had the wide exposure that the A-08/A-08S received. I have had mine for coming on two years now and it never fails to please. I have a number of other amplifiers that I switch in and out of my system but I always end up hankering to put the A-011 back in the rack.

With regard to the Stereophile measurements, JA does mention that the bottom cover on the review sample was somehow missing and therefore it was possible something had become mis-adjusted.

Does test equipment hear the same way we do? About the only benefit of test equipment is that it has no bias or opinion. Other than that its not human so it technically can't hear things from a human perspective.

Case in point: tube designs are generally accepted as noisier than transistors (and will measure as such), yet many prefer their coloration or distortion characteristics to be more pleasing than quieter transistor designed counter parts.

I agree, but a big channel imbalance is weird. It does make you question if something wasn't right with the unit, it seems to be pretty basic, and not too challenging to get right.