Critic's Corner

Posted by mkuller (R) on March 10, 2007 at 10:36:07

In Reply to: Who reimbursed TAS? posted by eungkim67 on March 9, 2007 at 15:47:14:

...funny that after posting 'Bye, Bye TAS' above, I was contacted by a number of manufacturers with more information and even greater concerns.

So either Martin is not telling the whole story or what I heard from a couple of sources is incorrect.

If it is in fact correct, it would appear Martin is still covering for Valin and may be part of the problem, rather than the solution.

Here's what I was told: Apparently Valin's move was years ago. When a pair of Nordost interconnect cables showed up on AudioGon which were traced to Valin by serial numbers, Nordost requested all of his loaner cables back. He returned them but was at least $20,000 short in the loaners he returned. No one has mentioned where all those cables ended up.

So the magazine reimbursed Nordost and Valin is paying back the magazine.

Until Martin takes some action, this story is not likely not go away.