Yes. Onion.
Let’s see, Romy is blasting Lamm and the new ML3 amp’s propoglicity – but at the same time saying that they are the only ones worthy of being blasted.
6moons has become THE news outlet for audio news, although the reviews and advertising on their site could be considered minimal [even though the site is more popular than ever according to online metric gathering software sites – so why people are not advertising there, I couldn’t tell you. Advertisers, search for 6 moons on Alexa, or A9.com if you prefer. No, not a perfectly reliable metric – but better than guessing with the eyes firmly closed].
The latest HiFi+ spends several pages talking about the RMAF 2007 show, or rather, about *their* room at the show. But, silly me, I didn’t even know they had a room. Anyway, maybe show coverage is only going to be provided by their Absolute Sound brethren.
Stereophile… does this issue seem kind of boring to anyone else? [No, I don’t think ALL of the issues are boring… though thinking back on it….]. For example, the Gear of the Year [nice phraseology there] – Chord and Ayre, digital and amp respectively, OK. Good workhorse equipment. But the Linn LP12? Watt Puppy #8254? Dynaudio Confidence C4? ARC/Cary multichannels?
Not a banner year. [Yes, yes, they CAN all be made to sound good, and most will work tomorrow as well as today, but did the reviewers spend the time to try different amps and cables for the, uh, very particular demands of these speakers, which almost always sound Poopify at shows? No. It was just a year of not much exciting happening over at Stereophile this year. I mean LOOK at the runner ups… EEEEeeeewwwww – though I am surprised they chose the Watt Puppy over the Sophia mk.2, especially given all their attempts to go slumming this last year (did I say that? I guess I did. Funny, when Apple made the computer ‘for the rest of us’ they made it more expensive than the ‘computer for most of us’)]
