So true. Both brands combine technical achievements and musical expressiveness very well.
I rememeber a conversation I had with Luca Chiomenti from Riviera Labs, who told me about his painstaking listening tests to select and match every single component of his electronics, down to the last resistor. And Lucasz described a similar approach in his introductory interview about the Horizon development.
Giuseppe at Diesis shares this approach, where a solid design principle, its thorough execution and verification by measurements are only the beginning of the journey to make the heart and soul of the music to come through.
Ultimately, these are to be treated as musical instruments.