Except he's not arguing that to my eyes, his position seems to be that many widely respected and valuable amps (Leaks, Quads, Radfords etc) are crap because he's seen a few pictures of badly restored examples on eBay and thinks he knows more about electronics that Peter Walker, Harold Leak etc. The reality, borne out by those of us who use them daily, is that these are solid, well made, reliable and very easily serviceable kit that sounds great when used in an appropriate context. I suspect another issue is that these amps all being so popular in the market, so 'classic' in status now effectively reside in the public domain and many users such as myself simply don't need to pay high service costs as anyone who can solder neatly can do it themselves. The information is all out there, parts, kits, even third party upgrade packages are all widely available. The amusing thing is a huge part of his music collection will have been recorded, mixed and mastered using Quad amps, and personally I'd take the purchasing decisions of EMI, Abbey Rd, Decca etc as to whether they are junk or not.