In Reply to: RE: Musical Fidelity V90-DAC rating posted by geezerrocket on March 20, 2014 at 06:36:39:
Actually, I'm not so much bothered by Mr. Tellig's persepctive or judgments as an individual reviewer. It seems to me that he should have a reasonably wide latitude within his monthly column. However, someone should have forseen how his very briefly expressed description, followed by an stratospheric rating outside of his column for this $299 DAC might impact the credibility of the magazine. Perhaps, no one there believed that subscribers might care about such things. I rather hope that it was merely an editorial oversight.I suppose, that my primary concern is about the editorial process by which the magazine awarded the V90 an Class-A+ rating, the details of which have yet to be clearly explained by JA. The fact that the product in question is from perennial fair-haired-boy Musical Fidelity induces the distasteful suspicion that favoritism may have contributed to the rating. Of course, I do not expect perfection from the humans at Stereophile. Perhaps, however, a bit more procedural discipline might reasonably be expected?
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Ken Newton
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