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Unusual TAS bomb

Something you don't see too often in this month's issue of TAS - a truly bad component review, of an Audio Research piece none-the-less. Alan Taffell reviewing the the DAC8 said "Overall the DAC 8 is simply not as involving, musically informative, or relaxing as it must be to compete at its price point" and that might have been the most polite thing he said about it. I've gotten so used to reading fawning reviews I almost didn't think they had it in them to really pan a piece of gear.
grimace
tmsorosk
1,013 posts
 
I doubt he got fired for a bad review , more likely bad ears.
soix
9,456 posts
 
Agree with Dougmc that Roc2id's comment was just intended as a pretty funny joke. Also point taken about the BDA-1. Although it was just a sentence or so it's amazing a TAS writer would not refer to just one but two other competitive products. Shocking. Can't imagine how much more effort the poor guy had to put in just to write that extra sentence. Oh the pain.
sarcher30
596 posts
 
I agree it is just hear say. Yes Roc2id could have been joking. Sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is joking on the internet unless they use emoticons. I did not really take the comment seriously. I should have stressed the "if" he had been fired in my comment. I did not intend to lend any credibility to Roc2id's comment.
wolf_garcia
6,695 posts
 
The value of that review was that it woke people up, although I'm not sure it was intentional. I also doubt that ARC would sell the DAC8 if it wasn't damn good, but starting from the rebuttal ARC posted to the avalanche of mail this must have generated, it is fun to watch the spectacle.
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