The satisfaction guarantee would be worth more to me than the opinion of some reviewer who will be in love with something else next month. His opinion (which is all it is, TAS being 100% subjective) is no more valid than yours. Stereophile gave one amp that was an exact copy of an AVA amp a 'Class A' rating on its 'Recommended Components' list once; the original AVA amp it was copied from made 'Class D'. These people are not omniscient, or audio gods; they are just nerds with good writing skills who have figured out a way to monetize their audio fetish.
You might want to go back to the first year of Frank's 'Audio Basics' newsletter, available on his website, and read the article "How to Read an Underground Audio Magazine"; his points there are still valid.
Meanwhile, I'd place your oredr.