Hello Srajan, I just finished working my way through your expanding preview section. You have lots of exciting things coming up. Like you I'm curious to find out whether Canor's new class AB integrated employs a switch-mode power supply or has figured out an ultra-compact solution to go linear. The Henry Audio DAC looks interesting exactly because it's so minimalist and apparently basic on the inside while its designer clearly has a very serious engineering background well outside audio. The over-the-top Cobra speaker promises to become a real assault at the state of the art for its size. Thank the heavens for extremists like Greg. Your mystery post is fascinating and I can't wait to find out what the brand is. The biggest mindbender for me is Boenicke's new wooden nut. Without the brand tie-in I would honestly write it off as too kooky. But I looked at his website and found it there exactly as you describe it. Having heard Boenicke speakers at numerous shows, I can't simply discredit the concept but am still very hard pressed to accept the quoted promise of 15-20% soundstage improvement particularly in height. How would that even be possible? I appreciate your willingness to investigate things at the fringes. I can see how if your friend John Darko did this against his YouTube comments section, such a review would set off a real shitstorm. You isolate yourself behind the email wall and only publish civil comments so have figured out a way to do it. Still, do you have to delete a lot of emails when you publish reviews of such fringe items? In any event, I just wanted to send a quick thanks for entertaining reviews posted and forthcoming. Keep up the good works. Thomas
I'm glad you enjoy our wild mix, Thomas. And yes, YouTube comments recommend against covering certain products if one doesn't want to police the comments to weed out the obnoxicators. It's likewise true that my email wall prevents shitstorms from dumping on this site. What might get triggered elsewhere isn't my concern. These days it's exceedingly rare for miscreants to bother sending me off-colour emails when I won't reply, delete their emails and blacklist them. Pretty much everyone who makes the effort to contact me by email is civil even if they disagree with or question me. I'm also not working to an algorithm and making quota to maintain ranking. It gives me freedom to review what I find interesting, not worry about how the algorithm might downgrade me if some articles are far less popular than others. Srajan
