cd versus transport and external DAC

[Ajani]

You see what audio magazines do to us good people? It's EVIL!!!

It has nothing to do with specs, but here is another interesting read..


http://www.high-endaudio.com/RR-FREMER.html#Links

LOL.... I'm not a die-hard fan of profesional reviews... I rate Stereophile and a few others mainly for their technical measurements... and I give their subjective reviews a modest amount of credit, because a) they have the honesty to admit that Class ratings aren't everything... Class A doesn't mean you will like a product nor will Class D mean that you will like the product less than a Class A product & b) It takes balls to claim that a $1K CD player is as good as a $6K one etc... But even so, I take their reviews for what they really are: JUST OPINIONS... some I agree with and some I don't... I don't think it's all coruption though as some take it to be... I guess I'm just middle-ground...

In the case of this article, I kind of agree with Michael Fremer... there was really no need to mention Fremer at all in the initial article and certainly not like that... If the guy has real accusations to make, then he should just make them...