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I wasn't too pleased, either, with the current issue.

I'm sorry but it looks like the Japanese equipment makers are trying to invade the High End again -- Sony speakers, Yamaha separates and $53K amps from Technics!

The last straw was a good review for the $4K "revised" Technics SL-1200 direct drive with the "refinements" that 40 years brings. I'm sorry, but ever since I heard a direct A-B between the Linn LP12 and the same Technics back in 1974, I'm NOT going the direct-drive route no matter what TAS or other reviewers are saying.

I would cancel my subscription to TAS if I could afford the crazy $36 per year subscription fee!!!  $36?!?!?!  For a handful of printed pages and pictures???  Does Robert Harley think we are all millionaires? How dare anyone make a product that I cannot afford!!!!  I think we should tax the 1% so that everyone can buy the same $300 amplifier, $400 speakers, and $150 CD player.  Better yet - why not raise the taxes high enough on the 1% so that the 99% can just be given this very average universal system as an entitlement?  After all, isn't music a right?  Why should anyone with money, no doubt stolen from the poor working class, be able to enjoy better sound than the rest of us?  RESIST!  BREAK WINDOWS!  DESTROY ALL EXPENSIVE AUDIO GEAR!!!

Huh ??

Huh ??

I didn't get it either?  A new subscription to TAS is only $14.95 for the first year and I just renewed mine for 3 years for like $52.00.

All the audio rags cater to their advertisers. Peachtree must have had some conflict with Stereophile...the review was "weird" to say the least. https://www.stereophile.com/content/peachtree-audio-nova300-integrated-amplifier

Probably didn’t buy enough ad space.

 my favorite was the old Stereo Review before it went H/T. Lot's of more realistic priced equipment.