ralphpnj;318065 Wrote: > Thanks for the review summaries. TAS has long had a bad reputation among > audiophiles as a magazine with little or no interest in providing any > kind of scientific rigor to their reviews and I guess now we can also > had editorial rigor to that list as well. > > If, as you say, this review does help to put the Duet and other music > servers on to the audiophile radar than how long will it be before we > such things as: > > 1) High end, $1000 and up Cat 5 cables > > 2) High end external hard drives featuring gold plated disc and hand > wound servo motors > > 3) Exact Audio Copy Deluxe, the $2,500 version which guarantees > audiophile standard rips. > > and my personal favorite > > 4) The super deluxe air purification and ionization system which not > only purifies the air in one's home but also properly aligns the ions > to ensure one's WiFi network works up to only the highest audiophile > standards. > > I could go on, but the list of the absurd tweaks/add-ons that will flow > from the wells of the numerous snake oil salesmen out there is limited > by my feeble imagination. However, I'm pretty sure that the air > purification will be a big, big seller and will not seem all that > absurd in light of all the other "music server" tweaks that are bound > to appear.Yes this is dropping down to the non audiophile market too. I was looking at some coaxial cables from Philips that were white and marked mp3 compatible and sold for double the price of some black Philips that were black and identical.
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