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| The review wehave been promising is up Good point - though the two situations aren’t entirely analagous. Maybe you remember that, for Fanfare, I reviewed pretty much only Wagner for about a decade and I still have on my shelves roughly 20 complete Ring cycles (not to mention a bunch of... | |
| The review wehave been promising is up This is the kind of dialogue that needs to happen and I always try to attend to constructive criticism from editors and readers alike. It’s just so much more productive when the correspondent adopts the tone of a Mahler123 as opposed to the enrage... | |
| The review wehave been promising is up I don't necessarily disagree with sns and, as noted above, the magazine uses several platforms to let readers know what our favorite products are at all price points, both collectively (Editor's Choice) and individually (Golden Ears.) And referenc... | |
| The review wehave been promising is up John Atkinson once advised that a good equipment review should fulfill three functions: To inform, to entertain, and to guide a purchase decision. Inform: What’s the speaker enclosure made of? What’s the DAC chipset used? How readily is the ton... | |
| Classical Top Five An interesting discussion, and revealing to me in terms of one specific composer: Richard Wagner. I think I saw Wagner’s name mentioned once, as a "candidate" for inclusion in the top five. Nobody dared to put him on their list.Which is odd. Every... | |
| Disappointment with Pass Labs - I'm looking for something else This thread has been very illuminating / instructive. It ought to be required reading for all audio hobbyists. Klipsch loudspeakers are a known quantity. They’ve been around for a long time and because of that, and because they have always represe... | |
| Best songs to test speakers The one orchestral recording I’ve been taking to every audio show and have used for (almost) every equipment review for the last 5 years is a 2010 recording on the RCO Live label, an SACD. It’s Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 (his last) with... | |
| What are the best speakers you have ever owned and why? Who can resist a discussion like this? Less interesting to me than the identity of one’s "favorite" loudspeaker is the path taken by individual audiophiles. Watching a chronological list of a thoughtful listener’s speakers go by is to sense that p... | |
| Current speaker threads are boring InnaYes, Focal belongs on the list, as does Von Schweikert, Martin Logan, Vandersteen and plenty of others: household names (among audiophiles!) that sell uber-expensive models meant to be regarded as "statement" products. Significantly, the lowe... | |
| Current speaker threads are boring I'll make what I guess is an obvious point. If you're going to have "giant-killers," you've got to have giants. We should be grateful for the Wilsons, Magicos, YGs, MBLs, and Rockports of the world, companies that have cultivated a customer base (... |