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Print Rag (1991-2003) came out about once/year

Posted by jsusky (A) on June 29, 2017 at 08:17:12

In Reply to: I think Peter's own "Goodbye" might be even more fitting... posted by David S. on June 27, 2017 at 08:57:25:

Thanks for the link - downloads available for issues 16 to 29 (1991-2003).

I read TAS and TAC side by side as a young audiophile ca. 1979-1983. IIRC, the last TAC that I received - quite

"late" - showed the skeptical, unvarnished Aczel "for the first time".

(but maybe I hadn't noticed in his earlier issues)

I recall that he compared a rebuilt Citation 1 preamp to the then-current Audio Research flagship (the SP-10?) -

essentially he said they were indistingusihable.

Before that, he was high on the RGR-something-or-other preamp.

And, oh yeah, a loudspeaker by "Fourier". Some accused him of shilling for that, since he had a financial/design

interest in it.

(Can anyone corroborate?)

Much later, ten years (more?), I received an issue in which he was a full-on objective/DBT observer, complete with

ridicule for open-testing and open testers.

(and now I see it was Issue 14, 1991, available for download)

So, I'll indulge in some pop-psychology - what "triggered" that objective stance, along with the ridicule?

(and I'll look for various eulogies by various still-alive contemporaries)

Anyone here care to recall, reminisce about the iconoclastic Aczel?

I will close by saying that his "revealing" of the Baerwald alignment was important to me and that he once published

a free-wheeling panel discussion by amplifiers designers that is unrivaled in my experience - Cotter, Rappaport,

Curl (?), Marsh (?), and others whose names escape.

RIP

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