Thanks for revealing your own political leanings. We don’t care! This ISN’T a political forum, it’s about stereo equipment and music. Let’s keep it that way.
Right. So like I said this is the third time this same lame article has been posted as if its worth anyone’s time. The failing New York Times is failing precisely because they have abandoned bona fide standards of journalism in favor of pushing narrative 24/7. So let’s show just how awful this is staying just with the audio aspect of the piece.
I will for sport go by memory - and because I’m not about to go look at it again.
The piece is pure fluff with just enough detail to distract the easily distracted. Michael Fremer is in there but it seems purely to name drop as there’s nothing about him or his system really other than the speakers cost over $100k. Nothing, not even the brand, nothing about the setup. As far as the writer is concerned the record sounds good because.... well we never do learn why it sounds good.
They tell us its because it uses "mined silver" which makes me wonder just how dumb even a NYT writer has to be to think, what exactly? It grows on trees? Mined silver. If I wrote something like that in college they’d flunk me. NYT its fine.
Did you know records are made by something called "cutting"? Not cutting. Records aren’t cut. They’re made by something called "cutting" which requires scare quotes, another F as in Fail.
I’m not making this up. Go read the fluff if you can.
My favorite though is the paragraph that starts out as if its going to say records are better than... but then goes off on a tangent never letting us know. Style over substance, again and again and again.
And you guys fell for it. Discerning. Yeah. Right. As if you would know.
What a joke.