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In Reply to: Products overlooked by TAS or Stereophile? posted by hexenboden on May 17, 2004 at 09:42:02:
> I for one would like to see:
>- Dali speakers reviewed and measured in Stereophile
Recently reviewed by John Marks. No plans to publish measurements.
>- same for nearfield Acoustic Pipedreams and other line sources
>- a Stereophile review with measurements of Sound Lab speakers
No plans. We gave Soundlab major coverage 15 years ago. Not sure if
more is required. And Pipedreams is virtually a bespoke product,
meaning a review will not be very transportable.
>- more coverage and measurements of Muse products
Good idea, Kevin Halverson is one of the best audio engineers around.
>- a review with measurements of Edge amps
A full review of the Edge NL-12 appears in our July issue.
>- a comprehensive review of Tact digital amps, including jitter
>measurements
Eventually.
>- more coverage of (i) digital products
More coverage is on the way.
>(ii) high powered amps especially tubed (iii) SET amps
Mikey Fremer reviews the stupid expensive Wavac SH-833 in July.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Follow Ups:
The measurements section is in my opinion the single most valuable item in Stereophile. No one else has that depth of coverage. Reviews are useful but ultimately highly subjective. In some cases I feel they can be emotionally biased, even in Stereophile.While John Marks is one of the best reviewers around it would be great to see Dali's design philosophy measured in the lab.
I understand Pipedreams and Sound Labs are not mainstream products but they are design-wise two state of the art approaches. Too bad they cannot be covered.
I'm happy that you are covering the other products and look forward to reading about them. I think the magazine's level is as high as it has ever been, now the key is to make the right choices and keep the right balance in terms of what to review.
I frankly subscribe to stereophile becuase it's fun to read about the components. I place absolutely NO credence on the reviews, nor on the measurements.
Why not on the measurements? In the range they are measuring in, a much worse sounding piece of audio equipment can sound MUCH better subjectively. Note I said: IN THE RANGE.....
So if an amp has distortion of say .0001% versus another that hasdistortion of, say, 1%, then is one ten thousand times better? IF it;s a SET versus a sand amp...he he
-akhilesh
"I place absolutely NO credence on the reviews, nor on the measurements.
Why not on the measurements? In the range they are measuring in, a much worse sounding piece of audio equipment can sound MUCH better subjectively. "Certain measurements can tell you a lot about how a product is enginnered, which to me is useful as ONE indicator of performance. I never said measurements are the panacea. But they are more useful than most overly subjective reviews.
The issue of scale that you mention is IMHO not that relevant. Measurements have gotten fairly accurate. It seems the problem is more one of interaction between different qualities, than scale. In other words, frequency response, step response, distortion, are all different slices of the same pie. one view does not tell you that much --even a number of static views misses the dynamic nature of sound.
nt
...more importantly, to the point answers.
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