arnyk wrote: > I googled his name in conjunction with Stereophile and was provided with > a list of reviews of recordings. > > I also obtained what appears to be review of one of his reviews in > Stereophile: > > http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/looking-for-great-writing-on-music-in-stereophile-is-like.72755/ > > " > At least as far as music articles and album reviews go. (BTW, for a > magazine devouted to audiophiles, when was the last time you read a > review that talked about the sonics of an album beyond "...it has great > dynamics"? It seems any insight into the quality of the recording and > it's mastering is a mere afterthought, if considered at all.) Anyways, I > digress. I saw on the cover that this issue featured "The Grateful Dead > Live- New CDs and DVDs." I couldn't wait to dig in. Well, that'll teach > me. Besides the usual drivel and the "look-how-cool-am-I" attitude, the > article was splashed with errors. Spelling keyboardist Keith Godchaux's > name wrong and botching song titles are a few examples of sloppiness. > Mr. Swenson, in reference to Skeletons From The Closet (which the author > labels as Skeletons In The Closet!), refers to this album- comprised > almost entirely of studio cuts- as a great example of the band's early, > live multitrack recordings! Sheesh! An article on bluegrass a while back > was full of the same kind of errors and crappy prose. Irritating! > :realmad: > " > > There's this ironic comment about keeping the day job that is running > through my mind. > > Oh, it must be a different John Swenson that consulted for Stereophile. > > > Hopefully. > > The irony of all this is that a little while ago I challenged someone to > provide a little evidence about what sort of poster John Swenson was. > They never got back to me with anything I don't think. So I did a little > googling. > > If his posts were along these lines of this 2010 > post:http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?82110-Instructions-for-connecting-USB-DAC-to-Touch&p=577727&viewfull=1#post577727 > then it looks pretty good to me! > > Helpful. > > Appears to be accurate. > > Non commercial. > > Maybe he changed and all people remember is his later work.
I think he posts on CA, if you'd like to ask him a question. Touch optimisations http://touchsgotrythm.blogspot.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBGK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103684 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
