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  4. The Stereophile "Most Valuable Advertiser" List

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    I dropped by the bookstore today on my way home from work and leafed through a copy of the Stereophile "Recommended Components" issue. It was depressing, and quite unbelievable. For one thing, there's an average of 10-15 components in the "Class A" list in every single category of gear. This is close to and in some cases exceeds the number of components listed in "Class B", and in all cases it exceeds the number of "Class C" components.

    That ain't right. Am I supposed to believe that there's more "best of the best" gear than solid decent bang for the buck stuff? That for every piece of "above average" gear there's 5 pieces of "best of the best gear"?

    I also noted that the "Class A+" categories are growing at a nice rate, in fact for digital sources there's now at least 10 "A+" pieces of gear. Instead of demoting everything in "Class A" to "Class B" and dropping a bunch of gear off the list, they added a whole new class. Pretty soon they'll have to make "Class A+++" to fit in all the crap they want.

    It's depressing because the list has lost its meaning. You can't have 15 pieces of gear that are all "the best", it can't be that way by definition. By definition, "the best" means the one component that beats everything elses ass, meaning there can only be one, like the Highlander. But I'm a generous guy so I can live with 3, which happens to be the number of medals they give out in championships. But 15? That's ridiculous.

    Anyways, rant over, carry on.

    6 moons is just as bad.

  11. GE balanced senn cable in the house

    in Audio Accessories

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    seems like the bottleneck of the GE cable is the stock sennheiser plugs. the background is not as clean and as focused as it should. the equniox and headphile also had the same problem when i tried them. the zu, cardas and silver dragon had no stock wire in the signal path so they didn't have the same problem.

  21. zu mother power cord

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    you should stop selling power cords when you get new ones. ;) you don't remember a thing from when you had the airsine?

    the sound was open and clean but it was just too damn expensive to keep. i wish chris vh would knock off the cryo and cable cooking hocus pocus. he should also offer the stock oyaide as the standard termination so buyers can save another 30 bucks or so.
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