Is "The Audio Critic" magazine still around?

"Objective" and Peter Aczel in the same sentence ??? Try telling that one to someone that buys ocean-front property in Kansas. Two words: Fourier Loudspeakers. Sean
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Is there still "a sucker born every minute"? Mr. Aczel does P.T. Barnum proud.

The truth resides closer in what the audio Critc says than what is written in stereopile.
That means I dont agree with waht he says but at least he is not bought and paid for like the twits who write for stereopile.

Sean is referring to a very old issue, that Aczel started a speaker company and then wrote an article about his speakers for the magazine. This story has taken on a good deal of embellishment over the years--alleging that he did not reveal his interest in the speaker and passed the article off as an objective review. Neither of those allegations is true.

Aczel is the worst kind of sinner: a former true believer who renounced the faith. No wonder he engenders so much animosity. You either love him or you hate him.

Bomarc, have you ever seen the actual articles or how he carefully worded his statements regarding those speakers ? What he said in his review ? The follow up comments that he made trying to "back-peddle" ? No embellishment needed as he did a fine job of tooting his own horn and trying to hide his affiliation. It was only after he was cornered did he own up. I have a few articles of that era where they quote him word for word and then tear him apart using his own words.

On top of that, the first version of those speakers had a dome midrange as Aczel had stated many times over that no cone midrange could ever be "accurate". After many criticized the midrange of that speaker, he switched over to a cone driver and obtained better performance. So much for his previous comments and having to eat his own words.

Aczel was not a "true believer" that fell from grace of his own accord. He is a "blow hard" that got run out of the high end camp for good reason. As such, he's bitter and tries to tear down his detractors as best he can while trying to elevate his own opinion and importance. He may not be nearly as crooked as some of the other current crop of reviewers out there right now, but then again, they don't have a proven track record from WAY back like he does either. As such, they can afford to get away with the stuff that they do until they get caught red handed like Aczel did. Then they'll end up like him, living in denial and trying to get back the ones that robbed them of their glory and fame. Seam
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Let the buyer beware,
wise audiophile prepare,
and listen to Peter Aczel if you dare.