>From the "I can't make this stuff up" department comes the latest bit of nonsense from the November 2014 issue of Stereophile. Writing about the new Astell & Kern AK240 portable audio player, Michael Lavorgna has this to say:
"The Astell & Kern AK240 ($2500) is milled from a solid billet of aircraft-grade duralumin, and each player undergoes a 12-step process for the gunmetal-finished casework alone." As I said, I can't make this stuff up (but I wish I could!). Also of interest (from a comedy standpoint only) is Art Dudley's piece in which he used a strawman argument to try and debunk blind and double blind listening tests. Truly a knee slapping howler and sure to put up on the Stereophile web site in short order since the piece can now be worn like a badge (milled from a solid billet of aircraft-grade duralumin) by all those poor audiophiles. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102330 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
