Unusual TAS bomb

If he got fired for writing an unfavorable review then I have even less respect for that magazine than before. I guess they should fire the editor too since he had it printed. Then they can hire some marketing people from ARC to write reviews and it will all be better.

It makes no sense that he was fired for writing that unfavorable review. A negative review such as that would never have been published without crossing the desk of the editor-in-chief, Robert Harley, or at the very least, the desk of the executive editor, Jonathan Valin. One of those guys had to have read, discussed and approved that review before it went to print. Even Audio Research had an opportunity to see the review before it went to print, as evidenced by their response on page 152. Unless there was someone higher than Harley (such as ownership) who saw the review for the very first time only after it was published, and and decided he'd have the reviewer's head. But then again, as Sarcher said, Harley should have been fired too.

Any publicity is good publicity, goes the old show-biz maxim.

Good for them. We should have more of these reviews. Most are not much more of propaganda material.

Sarcher30 and Nicotico:

I could be wrong, but I think Rok2id's comment was intended to be humorous.

Soix:

I agree with pretty much everything you said, but one factual correction. The reviewer also preferred the Bryston BDA-1, which he said was on a par with ARC DAC7.