I think J. Valin is a decent writer. I’ve read The Absolute Sound for a long time, my beef with his writing is that it seems as soon as something comes along that’s more expensive than his “reference”, it immediately becomes his new reference. I realize that there is a correlation between cost and performance in the high end, but at least to me it seems a little obvious that if if it’s newer and more expensive then it’s better which is not always the case.
- Buck
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