Could they really sound that different? Or has he done something wrong?
GS has literally exploded over this... My suspicion is that it is either a) a few guys got faulty units, or more likely b) user error.
There are simply too many videos where this thing sounds deadly accurate (Inhalt, J3PO, Matt Johnson, Paul Schilling, James Terris) and guys whose ears I trust saying it is spot on (Matt Johnson and others).
Mine hasn’t shipped yet, but I’m sure as hell not cancelling or reconsidering my pre-order based on this. One of the luxuries of dealing with SW (and some other great retailers out there)... if I don’t like it for any reason, I can send it back. I think I could literally tell my SW guy that it doesn’t smell right, and they’d take it back. So it is zero risk at this point.