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Beetlemania

In Reply to: RE: Not sure what you mean. posted by jamesgarvin on February 07, 2018 at 11:12:37

that Hansen both defended *and* criticized Stereophile for many years, not just last year. Go back, for example, at the "Chips for Chumps" episode with Jim Austin.
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RE: You ignore/forget . . . - jamesgarvin 15:00:27 02/07/18 (1)
I don't forget it. He had his issues with Jim Austin. But did he unload on Wilson speakers, and Fremer's choice of them? Did he unload on Fremer's choice of turntables and arms? Did he claims that Fremer shops by the label? He claimed that Fremer wanted to listen to the Ayre sourced turntable simply to torch the turntable in print. Where was that posting at the relevant time period? He wrote that he remembered reading a review where JA fudged the numbers in his measurements. Where was that post when the review was written, one that, in response to a query from JA, he responded that he could not recall, it was many years ago? Or where he criticized JA's measurements of the Harbeth 40.1, reviewed in 2008? These are but a few examples.

The point here is that while Hansen lobbed a grenade or two over the years at Jim Austin, who I would characterize as a lesser contributor to Stereophile than either Fremer or JA, he opened the vault and went back a decade to dig up criticisms that he never bothered to mention until the end of last year. Sort of like Philips.
- RE: You ignore/forget . . . - Beetlemania 19:59:13 02/07/18 (0)
  I guess, but regardless of motivation not sure that he should have posted for each little thing that he disagreed with. Who would that have served?
  
  I think RickW is correct that Stereophile's full-throated support for MQA was too much for him. Clearly he'd seen enough and hoped to steer Stereophile to a different course. I wonder how much of this he'd shared privately with JA before the posts that Salvatore highlighted. It seems they communicated beyond what we read in print or on this forum.

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