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Unusual TAS bomb

Something you don't see too often in this month's issue of TAS - a truly bad component review, of an Audio Research piece none-the-less. Alan Taffell reviewing the the DAC8 said "Overall the DAC 8 is simply not as involving, musically informative, or relaxing as it must be to compete at its price point" and that might have been the most polite thing he said about it. I've gotten so used to reading fawning reviews I almost didn't think they had it in them to really pan a piece of gear.
grimace
chayro
1,801 posts
 
Any publicity is good publicity, goes the old show-biz maxim.
razmika
45 posts
 
Good for them. We should have more of these reviews. Most are not much more of propaganda material.
dougmc
105 posts
 
Sarcher30 and Nicotico:

I could be wrong, but I think Rok2id's comment was intended to be humorous.

Soix:

I agree with pretty much everything you said, but one factual correction. The reviewer also preferred the Bryston BDA-1, which he said was on a par with ARC DAC7.
tmsorosk
1,013 posts
 
I doubt he got fired for a bad review , more likely bad ears.
soix
2,133 posts
 
Agree with Dougmc that Roc2id's comment was just intended as a pretty funny joke. Also point taken about the BDA-1. Although it was just a sentence or so it's amazing a TAS writer would not refer to just one but two other competitive products. Shocking. Can't imagine how much more effort the poor guy had to put in just to write that extra sentence. Oh the pain.
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