Paid subscription surely. The articles in the pdf full magazine are much longer that the freely accessible reports on the TAS site.
How attractive , ...lol
Paid subscription surely. The articles in the pdf full magazine are much longer that the freely accessible reports on the TAS site.
Intéressant.
Can you translate this?
Kan niet geloven dat ie betaalt voor die onzin
Lol , but apparently you paid too it seems
Very good , google translate or you speak a bit dutch ?
Heel goed ken je mijn hifi in nijmegen nog ?
You write fluent indeed , multifoon may be , mijn hifi was always my favourite shop , people
I agree completely. And I wrote for TAS for a very brief period.You miss the point Alex,
Of course anyone can like whatever they like. Personal choice of a consumer is what they pay for. The larger point of my post is when the "reviewers" stop being a critic and choose a flavors to fit a review that makes no sense to me. It is not for me to tell anyone what they like however we can't have multiple categories for the same things to fit so no one is offended. I judge that as marketing not being a critic.
I am not a critic, nor reviewer however this flavor stuff is not either it is more being a reporter saying nice things about everything so as to not offend or critique.
I learned from reading HP and perhaps I am an old curmudgeon but I still learn but not form the press anymore. It has gone full cirlce.
YES, Elliot. It's a free for all now.After reading Mr. Valin again today on the TAS site It
made me question and wonder is this really the condition of the Audio Industry?
Are we at the point that there is no Absolute Sound and its just a free for all with product as to the flavor one likes?
Are reviews therefor totally worthless? or do you just pick the flavor from the reviewer you prefer who agrees with you or the one that validates you opinion and gives the "permission slip?"
If this is the truth then where do we go from here? I ponder this daily. How do we learn and how do we improve without a fixed target?
I know how much hard work and effort many companies put into their products to get closer to the music and I have a hard time wrapping my head around how easily this is dismissed by"flavors"
I just came back from Munich and I will admit it was fun and interesting to see and listen briefly to the amazing gear that was presented there.
I am still a believer in audio as a system and not pieces. Does the system get you closer to the music? Does it create a sensation of disbelief? Does it act as a time machine and transport me to a musical event?
To me its not a flavor!
I searched for a long time to find products I love, products that do this for me. I realize that they are not the only products that can do this or that any one system is perfect but I don't believe that its just any opinion is a version of the truth.
After all my years as a dealer I find it absurd to make declarations about any product in a void yet that happens every day.
i.e. Someone listens to a complete complex system and makes a declaration like
:thats the best ethernet cable I ever heard: yet they have none of the system.
This is not meant as criticism only to start a dialogue from this Forums many experienced listeners
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