

In Reply to: RE: Perhaps I wasn't clear but. Report, both of the others having been reviewed. And the QX5 was one of 3 DACs used in preparing the Rockport The QX-5 Twenty was published after that of the Rockport, I had alreadyįormed an opinion of the QX5's intrinsic character using speakers that hadīeen reviewed. Twenty in my review of the Rockport Avior II speaker.

But there are always exceptions, such as when I used the Ayre QX5 Stereophile's reviews, the latter is our policy. The reviewer is always faced with the conflict between system "churn" andĬhanging just one component - the one currently being reviewed. :) How many times have you read JA when he is reviewing an amp with speakers > Which is something I didn't get until a couple of years ago despite Charlie having made that claim years ago. ! That's crazy Charles > having performed countless comparisons, know by now pretty close to exactly what to expect when making a single config change. > Richard Vandersteen is rated and not Peter walker. If it only sounds good under certain conditions, it is not good - it is incorrect. > Gold and silver has intrinsic value from their ( Money) rarity and historical significance > I don't believe is system matching. > it is good to have "friends" in high places > You mean currency, not money, our feds create Currency. from where the fibers originated to location of final assembly. > all the banks do is make money investing your "savings" in the markets (or worse yet, derivatives) >. > ASRC applies to USB inputs only, right? > I'm sure he hears things that very few others do. > whether the third generation Benchmark got rid of the asynchronous conversion, which IMO is a "feature" to avoid in any DAC, if it cannot be defeated. In Reply to: RE: Stereophile Reaches a New Nadir posted by Todd Krieger on Octoat 22:40:38 RE: Stereophile Reaches a New Nadir - Charles Hansen 22:51:48 10/30/17.Aside from whether the third generation Benchmark got rid of the asynchronous conversion, which IMO is a "feature" to avoid in any DAC, if it cannot be defeated. Balanced circuits/cables are supposed to be immune to hum, compared to their single-ended counterparts.īut otherwise, no comment. My only comment is that if balanced interconnects "cause hum", it shouldn't be presumed that the problem is the balanced cables. In Reply to: RE: Stereophile Reaches a New Nadir posted by Charles Hansen on Octoat 06:23:44 RE: Stereophile Reaches a New Nadir - Todd Krieger 22:40:38 10/30/17.[This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: They are detailed in my lengthy online comment underneath any page of the review: Austin makes so many sub-amateur blunders that it is embarrassing. This is probably the single most incompetent review I've ever seen in my life. Recently the new review of the Benchmark 3 DAC by Jim Austin was published in Stereophile. Posted by Charles Hansen ( M) on Octoat 06:23:44
