Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation?

I never knew any funny comments about the Dalqhuist DQ - 10's so I'll make one up - the speakers w/ the Don't Quit crossovers - so complex w/ many mediocre parts & drivers. I know they were amongst the first speakers to address the concepts of time & phase alignment & sounded good in some ways but I didn't find the high or low ends convincing, especially when pushed loud. 

The most contentious UK magazine was probably The Flat Response which later morphed into Hi-Fi Review in the 1980s.

It was edited by one Chris Frankland who certainly had strong opinions about audio equipment. I recall reading that the SME arms got short shrift as did many 'exotic' cartridges.

CF seemed to genuinely prefer the Linn Basik arm and cartridge. (Neither of which were built by Linn).

I can only imagine how such opinions might have gone down in certain places such as Celestion whose SL6 and SL600 also took a real hammering.

When you see how tame reviews are now, lord knows how they got away with it back then.

Anyway, there's a great background article to the whole shenanigans linked below. Interesting to hear that Linn once employed blind listening tests themselves!

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The Flat Response Magazine  by Tom Tom Audio  Nov 28, 2017

http://thetomtomclub.ning.com/m/blogpost?id=6506457%3ABlogPost%3A9465

I once returned a Micro Sekei turntable to a dealer who without hesitation hurled it on the floor and proclaimed “Another Micro Turkey!”

Wow 39 responses....and no "McIntrash"? Glad I could help ;-)

More Trance Marantz.....Infectious Infinity...'Bro's Bose...

Why did we stop?

Did we? *L*

So much to make fun of, too much time wasted doing so... ;)