This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in.

Gdhal 1-11-2018
However, I must disagree with the rationale you offer for the removal of said posts. Consider what in my view is compelling evidence to the contrary. Any one of the words - including abbreviated words, acronyms and quotation - used in my post and that of Onhwy61 which could even remotely be viewed as expletive appear in numerous other posts throughout this forum.

Hi Hal,

What I can say is that every single time I have seen what are sometimes referred to as "four-letter words" in a post here, or lengthier words which include those four letters in the same sequence (as was the case in the two posts which were removed from this thread earlier today), the post has subsequently been removed. At least since the present forum format was introduced a few years ago.

While various acronyms and abbreviations which have a relation to those words seem to be allowed to stand, assuming the post has no other issues.

So I believe the suspicion I expressed in my previous post about the reason for the removal of the two earlier posts was correct.

Best regards,
-- Al

What I can say is that every single time I have seen what are sometimes referred to as "four-letter words" in a post here, or lengthier words which include those four letters in the same sequence (as was the case in the two posts which were removed from this thread earlier today), the post has subsequently been removed.

Al - I'll remain mindful of your advice in any future posts of mine.

OP - Apologies for any inadvertent diversion that I may have caused.

Jmcrogan,

You are missing my point, and we are world’s away from Bo’s crazy Tru Fi claims or are saying we are the only ones out there that can make good sound.

If you read any of our posts we are pointing out to products that are pretty highly rated already.

Taste is taste, there must be system synergy and of course even highly rated products may not be one person’s cup of tea.

In the case of a Timex which I have owned, and a Tag Heuer, or a Mauric Lacroix both watches I own, there is no such thing as a watch which performs better ie kills another watch. In fact a cheap Timex quartz will take more accurate time readings than any $50k Rolex or Patek.

You purchase a watch as it is a beautiful bauble.

In the case of an audio amplifier or dac or whatever there can be good, better, and best, levels of performance. Over the years we have heard a lot of really expensive gear some of the uber gear is really amazing and is really performing at an even higher level of overall performance

System synergy still has to apply, we have a Light Harmonic Davinci which is a $35k Dac and yes it "killed" the lesser dacs, which we had in the shop at $15k and $25k, by killed once you heard the Davinci it was impossible to listen to the other dacs once you heard how much better the Davinci was in those areas that we value.

Performance and worth or value are too different things.

On direct comparison the T+A was way better than everything we tested.

We did find out that a $90k Boulder Mono block was better than a $32k stereo T+A amp with an outboard power supply, but that wasn’t a fair fight as T+A offers a mono block version which may be dramatically better we never heard it so we don’t know. The Boulder was better in certain areas, the T+A actually had better bass which seemed impossible considering the size and weight of the Boulders.

Hope that helps clarify. Why don’t you read the actual reviews and see for yourself. We would say that both reviews really do paint a true picture of this gear it is really special, again we are not saying it is better than some of the other uber brands, but if you look at Dagastino, Vitus, Boulder, and other similar models the T+A gear costs less and if magnificently finished with a fantastic feature set.

Go find some and see for yourself or don’t that is your call.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ