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In Reply to: Reality (not Perception) posted by John Atkinson on February 26, 2007 at 16:31:02:
Just to amplify what JA was saying:Several years ago JA was doing a follow-up report on the CX-7 CD player. I asked him if he had any balanced cables to use with it and he said that he didn't. I wanted him to hear it in balanced mode, so I sent him a pair of prototype cables we were working on.
(Please understand that JA, like any good reviewer, takes what the manufacturer says with a grain of salt. Usually they will try it in the manufacturer's recommended configuration, but then they will try it their own way as well. I'm sure you can remember reading speaker test reports where the reviewer notes that he moved the speakers from their carefully arrived at position as soon as the manufacturer's rep left! So I have no doubt that JA tried the CD player with other cables besides the ones that I loaned him.)
I had completely forgotten about those cables until he mentioned them in his posting. He is currently in the process of reviewing the K-5xe preamp, so naturally we would like him to hear them with our balanced cables (along with any other cables he might care to try).
My concern was that he was using an old prototype pair of cables that never saw the light of day and are not representative of our production cables. Even you must realize that uselessness of that. That is why I asked for the prototypes back.
It turns out that he apparently already has some of our current cables also, apparently provided with the review sample of the preamp. I'm not completely up-to-speed on all the details of this, as I've spent the last three months in the hospital after a nasty accident. I'm working from home part-time now, but am not fully informed on every detail of which accessories were loaned to which reviewer with each piece of equipment.
All I can say is that bjh is making much ado about nothing. Neither I nor JA have anything to hide. We at Ayre have an opinion about how to get the best sound from our equipment. JA has enough respect for us to at least try our suggestion. He may or may not agree with us, I don't know. We'll both find out when the review is published later this year.
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- Re: Reality (not Perception) - Charles Hansen 20:03:56 02/26/07 (0)
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