darrenyeats wrote: > I'll be sad if Stereophile disappear because they're one of the few > magazines doing measurements as part of their reviews.
Archimago wrote: > My sentiment exactly... The measurements J.A. publishes are why I > subscribe. It would be say if the only audiophile magazine I can find > left at the local bookstore ends up being TAS or Hi-Fi+. Come on gentlemen please tell me exactly what difference Stereophile's holy measurements make? If the equipment under review and measurement sounds great to the reviewer but has terrible measurements then JA (aka clown in chief) writes some nonsense about how just because the measurements are not good does not necessarily mean that the equipment is going to sound bad. And if an inexpensive piece of equipment measures great (as is the case with almost all well designed DACs these days) than good old JA (yes that clown again) writes some nonsense about how measurements don't reveal enough about how equipment sounds and how measurements fail to capture those little things that separate a $20,000 DAC/preamp/power amp from a $500 DAC/preamp/power amp. Remember when you are in the business of lying there is no depths to which you are unwilling to sink. And that is just the tip of the iceberg because JA never fails to his holy measurements as a double edged sword - $20,000 DAC has jitter which is almost unmeasurable but $500 DAC has measurable jitter - well then the $20,000 DAC HAS TO BE BETTER!!! But JA always fails to mention that the jitter in the $500 DAC is inaudible. I could go on but I think you get my point - JA and Stereophile use measurements to give a false sense of scientific respectability to what is really just a bunch of garbage. At least the Absolute Sound and HiFi+ dispense with the charade and just give you lots and lots of BS. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103223 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
