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Playback Designs MPS-5 Review in Stereophile

I thought there was a thread about MF's review of the Playback Designs MPS-5 in Stereophile. Did I dream that?

I own the PD and love it and agree 100% with MF's subjective review. OTOH, JA brought up some objective "flaws" in his testing and PD answered back that they thought that JA was measuring the wrong things, but thank you.

This brought up the classic, but interesting and informative, discussion of objectivism vs. subectivism and are we testing the right things.

How does this all this color the review of the Playback Designs MPS-5 in the minds of readers here. Overall, was the review positive or negative for PD?

I vote for positve and believe that we're not testing the right things yet. I'm very encouraged by the protocol that Nordost is developing, using actual music signals to explain differences heard when changing things like isolation platforms, power cords, speaker cables, etc. Hopefully there'll be a white paper soon, so that others can try the protocol and either validate it or prove it wrong. I'm rooting for a new protocol and hope it arrives soon.

Dave
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mtkhl567
157 posts
 
Dave, you didn't dream that there was a large thread on the Playback Designs MPS-5 and MF's review recently in Stereophile. It was mostly favorable to the PD player. In summary, a player outperforming the $70K Scarlatti, concidered a benchmark, priced at a fraction of that. Now who would benefit from removing that information...I wonder?

Well, we all know the occasional misterious augiogon sensorship actions...
jb0194
476 posts
 
Decrying "misterious augiogon sensorship" in the context of one's system consisting of the PD MPS-5 player, DartZeel preamp, DartZeel amplification and Evolution Acoustics MM3 loudspeakers perhaps provides a clue about why past PD MPS-5 posts (not just the post in question) have been closed or removed. Then again, perhaps not...
der
38 posts
 
"Decrying "misterious augiogon sensorship" in the context of one's system consisting of the PD MPS-5 player, DartZeel preamp, DartZeel amplification and Evolution Acoustics MM3 loudspeakers perhaps provides a clue about why past PD MPS-5 posts (not just the post in question) have been closed or removed. Then again, perhaps not."

I've read this in every way imaginable. Perhaps you know what you mean. Then again, perhaps not.
mtkhl567
157 posts
 
Jb0194, thanks for looking at my system and providing INvaluable feedback, but then again...perhaps not!
guidocorona
4,298 posts
 
Jb0194, personal 'density' freely admitted. . . but I do not understand the causality chain implied in your post. 
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