dyohn wrote: > Very well stated. I call Absolute Sound absolute rubbish.
The truly sad thing is that much of the equipment that TAS reviews really deserves to be given a high quality and thorough review. The kind of review that includes things like double blind listening tests, extensive sighted listening, careful measurements, evaluations of all of the equipment's functions, etc. For example in the same issue i quoted from above, there is a review of the new Oppo BDP-105 where the reviewer only uses the Oppo to listen to two channel CDs and SACDs - no mention of multichannel playback, DVD video, blu-ray, 3D blu-ray, network streaming, internet streaming (netflix playback), USB input, DAC, etc. And of course not one single measurement. But what can one expect from a magazine that claims that wav files are superior to flac files, that a $500 USB cable "sounds" better than well made $20 USB cable and that the jitter from a SPDIF connection is clearly audible. So I guess you're right: TAS is really TAR! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98300 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
