- @aquint So, you started with this excuse…
With the 432 EVO Aeon review, as Lalin pointed out, I do have a Baetis server that’s active in my system and I use a lot and, of course, compared to the Belgium product. But how many readers have had experience with that one?
Now it turns into this…
Actually, I wasn’t able to complete the head-to-head comparison of Baetis to 432 EVO that I’d hoped to. The Aeon has only a USB output; the Baetis has USB, AES/EBU, SPDIF, and HDMI. The USB interface is an upgrade, employing an SOtM card and in mid-review, it stopped working. I’d developed an impression that the Aeon at least held its own against the Baetis but I couldn’t do the additional comparisons I wanted to…The Baetis became irrelevant, in terms of this review, and thus wasn’t even mentioned as "associated equipment."
Please stop. You’re just twisting your excuses in knots to try to explain your inexplicable behavior, and I’m being kind here. First it was the standard TAS “not everybody owns the other product” excuse, now it’s the I didn’t have the proper connection to do a valid comparison excuse. That crap don’t fly here man, and every seasoned audiophile here will see right through it for exactly what or is, so again I say just cut your losses and stop throwing out these BS rationales or this will get nothing but worse for you as others start to chime in because the truth is plain to see here. I don’t like pressing you at all here man, but I also won’t let BS pass as I always expect to get called out on my statements whether here or in professional reviews and I accept that accountability as part of the terrain. I recommend you do the same, and I really hope you and your colleagues at TAS embrace doing more comparisons in the future because I think you could offer so much more to potential audio buyers than you do now.