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In Reply to: RE: Speaking of having the same speakers as an objectivist... posted by tomsyl1 on May 29, 2008 at 12:51:46:
"On to the notorious Peter Aczel, who I picture as Harvey Korman in "Blazing Saddles". years ago he got caught with his hand in someplace it didn't belong, promoting as "best ever" a speaker that he had a financial interest in (the "Foreplay" or somesuch - sounds like Aczel could be a descendant of Onan the Barbarian). Never heard the speakers, but heard that they were pedestrian at best. Never read anything by the guy or bought his moribund audio rag since then. AFAIC, he's ceased to exist. "
That's interesting. A little bit back, a pair of Aczel's Fourier 1s came available for sale. At the time having some casual interest in very steep slope crossovers, I looked into them out of the prospects of having something new and unusual to play with, though I didn't buy them in the end. While looking up information on the Fouriers, I came across similar comments to yours, time and time again, most often dragged out to assassinate his character whenever some mention was made of something he had said that was disagreeable to audiophile sensibilities. So, I did some more looking into it and didn't find one person who provided evidence to back it up.
Far as I could tell, this may be one of those "forum facts," an opinion or story that has come to become a "truth" on forums through constant repetition and the desire of others to believe it. (Sociology studies show that people will accept something as majority opinion or truth if even one person says it forcefully, loudly and often despite contrary, but less often stated, evidence to the validity of the aforementioned comments.)
However, I did stumble across this post that unlike the others seems to have come from someone who actually read the articles and related issues of TAC and took the time to provide quotes as evidence. Very interesting, but unconfirmable to me until I can verify or disprove it against another source that isn't just relying on here-say. Are your comments based on actual observation and reading of the relevant text from the time?
If so, it certainly wouldn't be the only instance of a dishonest reviewer/rag editor and rather just makes him one of the crowd. People scream about this unethical behavior (if true), yet I know of not one, not a single audiophile magazine or e-zine, that assigns to the Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics that most other "review" based magazines and journals in other fields uphold. Kind of hard to single out Aczel for dismissal on such grounds when other reviewers enjoy near-permanent "loans" of review gear, below industry accommodation pricing, even merely free watches and lunches, and so on.
That rant aside, I am curious, is there an actual foundation to these claims?
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