On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 11:09 -0400, ron thigpen wrote: > seanadams wrote: > > > Is it expensive enough for Stereophile? :) > > Oh, it's not the cost of the unit that matters, it's the size of the > print advert you purchase from them. =)
I see that :-) indicating at least a little tongue in cheek. Like all good magazines, they have a chinese wall between editorial and advertising sales. And the editor, John Atkinson, is a pretty decent guy. I know he took a fair amount of heat when he rated the Benchmark DAC-1 as a serious audiophile tool. It can't hurt for Sean to send him an email asking if he'd want a review copy. If I was sending it, I'd probably include a CD with the latest server and another CD with some FLAC'd files of music well reviewed in recent issues. But I see a more serious problem. I think the SqueezeBox makes a lot of the "CD transport" gear obsolete. Not the $100 players, but the $5,000 ones. And there is a chance that the SB2's quality will make a lot of $1000 DAC's obsolete. Next, you'll be saying that the $500 interconnect wires are not needed. Pretty soon Stereophile will be losing a huge percentage of their advertisers. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
