In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment

"I seriously doubt any dealer is going to commit that kind of money to put one on display."

Aavik has two dealers in the U.S.A. and one in Canada. It would be interesting to find out if they have one to listen to.

I assume by exposed, you mean you had an actual confirmed Covid19 diagnosis?

Two clicks worse than a cold does not take out 25-50% of the residents in a nursing home. During WW2, I wonder if American's considered it "giving up their civil rights", when certain critical resources had to be allocated?  No doubt, some of them whined then too.

mijostyn2,133 posts05-20-2020 10:38amAs for the virus, it is a sad day when Americans forfeit their civil rights for a disease two clicks worse than a cold.
I'm 66. I got myself exposed, had a minor cough and now I am totally immune and can not give the disease to anyone else.

To teaudio's point, 99.9% of people who read Car and Driver, Motor Trend or Road & Track will every own a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or McClaren, but that is what people want to read about. I am probably never going to own or fly a Mach 2 fighter jet either, but I like reading about them.

You’re not really good with numbers, are you?

I wonder if this firing was truly about refusing to manipulate the data, or the general aversion to a competent government employee .. by other government employees :-). Old Japanese proverb, "The nail that stick up shall be hammered down".

geoffkait21,923 posts05-20-2020 7:32amJust as I suspected all along,

A scientist who created a dashboard for monitoring Florida’s rising number of COVID-19 cases said she’s been fired for refusing to manipulate the data.