Interconnect with great dynamics and bass slam ,

@Audiolab, I let my subscriptions lapse several years ago. I have no intention of re-subscribing, as it just fans the flames of this disease by constantly making you believe that what you have now is inferior, and the newest version X.3.5 is the best by a wide margin now. LOL!!

It's all a scam!!! I find much more realistic information here on these threads with REAL audiophiles, then by reading professional reviews by reviewers whose bias' are very transparent to me now.

@c jmcgrogan2 , I whole heartly agree with your statment of todays reviewers!, In the old days, they held nothing back, good or bad!, I have read alot of todays reviews, Thats how I bought the cary cd-500 player, LOL!, I wont do that shitt again!, The reviewers now days is only a basis to want to listen to a product!, I believe they are paid to say what the product maker wants them to say!, I was considering a new subscription to see all whats out there nowdays and gleam at all the new brands and pics, LOL!, cheers!

Ouch!! I never knew you bought a Cary CDP.....my sympathies. I listened to a couple of their CDP's several years ago, I think it was their 306 and 308 models, they were unbelievably bad sounding units. I never read a review on them, I didn't need to.

Yes, reviewers say what they are told to say. Sometimes you can almost see them quoting directly from the sales literature. LOL!!

Jmcgrogan2, I know of several reviewers who I think would take exception to your statement that, "reviewers say what they are told to say." There is little question that manufacturers have favorite reviewers and that advertising is the basis of success in free emagazines and in print magazines also. Some manufacturers do feel some obligation to support independent magazines by giving advertising to them.

Quoting from the manufacturers literature is entirely appropriate if it captures what they say underlies, credibly the product's innovation or strength. Often reviewers lack the expertise to really dismiss the sale pitch among the useful statements.

It often is impossible for consumers in our modern economy to hear competing components at all much less under the same circumstances. Frankly, like other reviewers, it is also difficult to really have the opportunity to do an a/b comparison of the top products.

Of course you know I No longer have the cary cd-player!, Ayon all the way now baby!