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Reading these recent threads brought to mind this article written in 2002 by Steve Deckert of Deckware Audio. A designer and company I think a lot of.
The article is linked below. The event occurred almost twenty years ago, but it still may be relevant in some ways.
The author lets the reader draw his own conclusions, and so will I. Mr. Deckert may be incorrect in his implied conclusion. I wouldn't dispute that when the editor shoots this down. However I do believe his account of the events.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
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He listened to them communicated promptly and when he returned them he paid shipping.
Thanks Kloss. Good to know a small independent such as yourself was treated well.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
Unfortunately we are hearing only one side here. I don't know either party.
However, this is possible, I have witnessed, firsthand, behavior from a reviewer that was much worse. Not all are bad. Not all are good.
I might remind people that there are also manufacturers and dealers who have deliberately ripped off folks in a pre-planned way. Moral is: humans are humans. There are some really bad reviewers, really bad manufacturers, really bad dealers, and really bad consumers. Therefore, behavior like this can be perpetrated by some individuals from any of the groups. To think reviewers would be immune would be very naive.
This was beaten to death years ago and it appears, as usual, that there is a bit less here than meets the eye.
That being said, I am no fan of Mr. Tellig's style of writing and was not sorry to see him depart from Stereophile.
Thanks for the link. Yep, it was beaten to death.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
More laughing...
I did not read Steve's piece to imply in any way that the ASUSA amp was reviewed by Stereophile. In fact, the links to reviews of both amps were CLEARLY another web publication(tnt?).
What WAS made clear by Steve is that Sam kept the Amp longer than needed for a mention in his column; even delaying return after he said it was to be on its way, and that delay MAY have been due to the fact that he MIGHT have had some insider's knowledge of ASUSA introducing a very near clone and the delay MIGHT have been just him wanting to hear both side by side?
Could be.
OTOH, if ASUSA wanted to clone the amp, at the price of Steve's offering they likely would have just bought one, copied it, and sold it on the used market for near to $499 which is near-zero net cost.
I guess I should be glad I don't have to pay rent for the space I occupy
in your consciousness. :-)
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
I am not sure if you should be paying me...
Or, if I should be paying you.
Maybe balancing how much you think about me prorated against how much I think about you?
Suddenly you claim you too think about me all the time..... LOL
than your earlier comments as linked above, your welcome. ;-)
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