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In Reply to: RE: Musical Fidelity V90-DAC rating posted by knewton on March 15, 2014 at 10:57:39
I will go back and look, you raise in interesting point.
Normally, I consider each month's obligatory paean to Mu Fi to be an ad and don't read it, so I will try to catch up.
I know Mu Fi is one if the six Hi Fi companies in existence, so it's not fair of me to ignore their relentless coverage, but I have Mu Fi fatigue. I am so sick of Mu Fi monthly, I have developed an aversion to the name. All that coverage has produced the opposite if the intended effect. I will not consider buying Mu Fi any more...anybody else react that way at this point?
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Yes, I feel the much same about Stereophile's incessant Musical Fidelity reviews. While I've nothing particular against Musical Fidelity, such an over focus on one vendor's rather pedestrian products consumes pages which could otherwise be used to review interesting products from less well known vendors. I only read Tellig's report on the $299 V90-DAC after noticing that it was listed among the Class-A+ Digital Processors. Mr. Tellig commits one and a half sentences, count'em, to describing the sound. Stereophile then awards it a Class-A or A+ rating. Something seems very amiss here. I hope this is merely some editorial oversight, and not shameless boosting of Musical Fidelity's financial interests.
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Ken Newton
Edits: 03/16/14 03/16/14 03/16/14 03/16/14
Descriptions of sound system sounds are awkward at best. Look at all this as light entertainment.
I look at all this as glossy marketing literature.
In the past, magazines that didn't take advertisements had a clear mission to either educate or entertain.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
... either went broke or started taking ads, or both.
The exceptions are vanishingly few.
That being so, Who needs them?
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Actually, quite a few of us do. Not as many as in pre-Internet days, but enough.
Yeh, in the past.
Magazines without ads in niche hobbies suffer one of the following fates
1-the publishers get sick of losing money and fold
2-they charge astronomical subscription prices to subside the lack of ad revenue and either fold from tiny sub numbers, or publish a few issues a year that a few hundred people read.
Folks in this hobby talk a good game, but they want free or dirt cheap content. Ask them to subsidize an ad free review mag and you will hear crickets chirp and not a single wallet will come out of the back pocket.
They would rather pay 10 bucks for Stereophile and whine and complain about the content and how biased the content is.
No way to win for review mags.
Stereophile has a requirement that manufacturers have a certain number of dealers. Therefore, it means they generally have to review the mainstream products. Frankly, for a print magazines that requires people to pay I think it is a good policy because it ensures a certain level of protection for the consumer that it's not a fly by night operation or a company that is too small perhaps to suddenly get hit with major coverage and not be able to meet supply. Further, it protects the magazine from raving about something that goes under weeks after the review. Lastly, there is also a track record to mainstream products.
I reviewed some Line Magnetic gear but this is pretty new to North America and there is no track record. How will it hold up in 5 years, 10 years, 15 years? With major brands they have a track record. In a sense it's "safer" to review and recommend a "mainstream" brand.
Some brands don't change product lines as fast as Musical Fidelity was changing. Can't really review lines that have a few amps they keep around for a decade or two.
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