If you check on some of Paul Candy's reviews, you'd see that he has had quite a few brushes with "expensive" tables, and he mentions the Scheu even in this review. I don't think you can fault him for describing the musicality of the Amadeus, which is his job, whether he had compared it to a $1k table or a $20K table is pointless. When you hear it set up properly it will either grab you and make sense to you or it won't.