So what ever happened to Kinki Studio???


Wasn't Kinki Studio all the rage when they first came on the US scene with a quasi-US Distributor?  It seemed like there was no shortage of positive feedback and people who either owned one and were blown away or people who wanted one and couldn't stop posting about them.

Now that there is a new Distributor, why so quiet? Where did all the hype go?
dznutz
The reality the amps aren't as impressive as the universally ultra positive reviews make them out to be. I never heard one but just looking at the internals made me suspicious of it. It looks like a low-cost simple design sold at a hefty markup. For some reason a bunch of hype went out on the forums and and positive-feedback types about how they were a killer value. And the reality is everyone sells them after a while because they're actually not a great value at all. It's frustrating that we're absolutely swamped with ultra positive reviews. It could also be the first distributor ran a marketing campaign.
Sounds like a lot of veiled China bashing, to me. HiFiZero shows 3 for sale in Hong Kong, 5 in Canada and 3 in the US. All on one page. That’s not a lot. USAudiomart has just 1. Searching something like Krell shows many multiples of that running about 4 pages. Just saying.

Oh, and going by the looks and being suspicious sounds like good old trolling. Lots of reviewers still own theirs as well. One in Ireland, at least 3 in Germany, etc. Haters gotta hate, I guess.

All the best,
Nonoise
I happen to be one of those reviewers who found, and continue to find, the EX-M1+ to be a wonderful component, to have excellent build quality, and to have additional value in the flexibility of having 3 operating modes. I use the unit I purchased after review on a regular basis, and it has excellent sound quality. I also wrote about the bonus factor of rolling into it discrete opamps, which elevated the performance more, and which, imo, boosts the value significantly. 

Interested parties can read my review at Dagogo.com