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Recent content by Alan Sircom

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    Naim Solstice officially unveiled . . .

    Welcome to the modern world. Launch a thing and it gets bought up fast; long before people have a chance for hands on. I am not sure they are pre-sold; 500 Series dealers who have a Solstice are inviting people to listen, but orders are on a first-come, first-served basis. But people will put...
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    Naim Solstice officially unveiled . . .

    Wrong. At least one reviewer has one at this point (me) and the only reasons I am not buying one is that I am already fully tapped out financially. By the time I will be less tapped out, those Special Editions will be long gone. I am not going to pre-empt my own review, but this is the most...
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    Alan Sircom

    Hi all, Thank you so much for your kind thoughts. Fortunately (and thanks to both my eagle-eyed GP and the team at Ealing hospital), I am not dead. And while I have a blood clot in my lungs the size of a Ford Transit, it is slowly being absorbed back into my body. Some of my early proper media...
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    Ethical HiFi Companies

    You obsess about the wrong symptom, like treating the toothache while ignoring the gaping, suppurating chest wound. A somewhat deeper ethical concern is distributors on the other side of the world holding some parts of audio to ransom: if it ain't big, hot, heavy, shiny, or costs less than a...
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    Ethical HiFi Companies

    You recall part accurately. Lexicon did rebadge an Oppo player - as it did with rebadging Bryston amps with the Lexicon name. This happened because buyers who bought top-end 'home theater' stopped buying pick 'n' mix systems and insisted on buying everything from the same brand, and wouldn't buy...
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    Power Cables. Are they overhyped?

    Thank you all for your time and sensitivity on the matter. Once again, I regret having to be the instigator in this, and now regret having to get back in my box.
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    Power Cables. Are they overhyped?

    It doesn't help that perception at all. But as I said, this was 'somewhat' out of my hands. We have some fairly significant (and, sadly, probably well-justified) sensitivity toward this very subject elsewhere in the company, and a friendly email falling into the wrong inbox escalated quickly.
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    Power Cables. Are they overhyped?

    One of the problems going forward is dealing with increasingly green demands without sacrificing performance. The early generations of switch-mode PSUs and Class D amplifiers were at best 'troubling' in this respect, but their sound quality has improved considerably in recent years. Of...
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    Power Cables. Are they overhyped?

    I'm happy to discuss our methodology, the epistemic basis of that methodology, and the results of that methodology. And I'm not at all concerned as to whether you agree or disagree with those results, the methodology, or the epistemology. All fair and frank discussion is worth examining, even...
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    Power Cables. Are they overhyped?

    Yep, the problem was that a couple of people noticed this on my behalf, and one emailed one of the hifiplus.com addresses that doesn't go to me, but further up the chain. Normally, I'd brush such things off, or if really naughty, have a quiet word. But, after a 3am call from 'Big Jim McFisty...
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    Power Cables. Are they overhyped?

    Just to say I am extraordinarily sorry that I had to make such a heavy-handed demand on the site, but my hands were 'somewhat' tied in this matter. I don't post to forums outside of our own site now because of that 'somewhat', too.
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    Parlour trick

    The person in question has a reputation in the trade for making 'contentious' claims then refusing to do anything until legally obligated. In fairness, I've had no great run-ins with him, so I don't know whether this reputation is deserved or groundless. Thinking about this cynically, making...
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    Parlour trick

    No.
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    Parlour trick

    Not true. The 'Patrick' part of the posts clearly states the volume level of the preamp was moved from displaying '58' to displaying '61'. The subsequent claims about tracks on a CD-R are way too close to repeating libel to discuss.
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    Parlour trick

    A fair point, as I think the reporting by the original author is possibly defamatory, although giving him the benefit of the doubt probably unintentional and thereby missing the whole 'malicious falsehood' thing. Here's why. If you look at images of Nordost's AXPONA room, the company is using...


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