A bad review that tells you more about the scattered emotional state of the reviewer than the product. It’s fine for a reviewer to be less than thrilled with product. But when that product is the flagship product of a flagship company doing their flagship product (tube preamps) its more than curious. And the reviewer spends all his time comparing different tweaks and is all over the map you gotta wonder what is going on. The same reviewer, JVS, panned the Esoteric N1 about two years ago and Stereophile put it in the A category anyway! This tells me Stereophile doesn’t trust this reviewer, but why still use him?
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