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The journey is the reward Chris. Keep sharing your steps and stops on that journey (delighted to walk that path of discovery with you)

The Chesky binaural recordings are striking for feeling like you're in the church where the recordings took place. The space aspect is hinted at in their literature, but the real acoustical event is definitely part of what they are trying to capture/reproduce

What hifi dudes consider "cool" looking is very different than what the other 99% of the world considers cool looking ;)

Another way I think about it is if a manufacturer knew they could sell 10k pairs of these every year, what would they be priced at. That is, how much of the mad is R&D cost driven with very low volumes to recoup, and how much is manufacturing cost driven where price wouldn't change even at very high volumes. I look at a manufacturer like B&W. The price performance of the 801's and 800's are outstanding, but they benefit from (relatively) huge volume sales for their lower lines that inherit this tech. Wilson gets similar trickle down for the WAMM tech, but their volumes at the lower end are (I'm guessing) even less than what B&W sells in the 800/801 series

"...just like way back in the days of old..."

"Ignorance is bliss" -- Thomas Gray

This is why I politely declined to listen to them when I had a chance ;)

When I was auditioning the Alexx V's and XVX's, I had an opportunity to hear these speakers. After hearing the XVX's, I politely declined (I did not need the "do I really need to retire someday" financial discussion going on in my head ;)

5 person years of engineering time and 5 prototype runs and you’re hitting $1M easy. Add in studies for case work and power supplies and things balloon quickly (extra quickly for anything digital that requires firmware or software work)

I think an aspect that has been missing from a lot of these discussions is the importance of separating the reviewer/journalist from the publsher/editor. All the norms and reasonable expectations that are being cited have the implicit fallback of the editorial standards and expectations of the publishers. It is easier to navigate grey of journalist/reviewer incentives when there are editorial standards and a history of editorial integrity that you can rely on. It is easier to broker and resolve conflicts and miscommunications/mistakes when there is a publisher/editor as part of the discussion. When I prepare and publish reviews here, Chris makes the call whether to publish or not. AS/Chris' reputation is on the line when he publishes something. He has a reasonable expectation of fairness, diligence, and integrity, and a history of delivering on same. A company loaning equipment to a AS reviewer can lean on that backing and history of editorial integrity. Any loan would be to a AS reviewer, not to the reviewer personally. Any conflict would be more easily addressed because of AS's history. Prior to HP.com, GS self published. There were no editorial standards other than (naive) personal editorial standards. if there had been, NONE of this kerfuffle would have happened. Any remotely engaged editor or publisher would have given the feedback shared in this thread (and a really good one the type of critique that Arch gave), and the end result would have been a much better review, and infinitely less drama. Any random person who is able to hit "Post" or "Tweet" is not a journalist backed by a publisher with established editorial standards and integrity. It does a huge disservice to the critical role that editors and publishers play to suggest otherwise. The dCS peace offer presents to me as an out and out bribe and is a horrible look for all involved, especially with the overlay of HP.com selling their products in the past and (presumably) possibly again in the future. For me, there is no grey at all here, although I respect that others may draw their grey line in a different place. I hope the lesson out of this isn't for "David's" to bulk up to deter lawsuits, Lord of the Flies style. We are not well served by click/engagement-amplified conch shells. The lesson here should be to conduct yourself in such a way that misunderstandings or mistakes are caught and resolved early, and to work and partner with people that do the same.

Another gift from the future from Mr Henley....27 walking through the grocery store, stopped stone cold in my tracks by this song on the "Hell Freezes Over" video playing, and crying a very ugly cry. I hadn't experienced this sort of loss (yet), but hearing this song just that one time (it is on DVD only, not on the CD), it was there when I needed it A perfect version of a perfect song "42 years to write, and about 4 minutes to sing..." .

I was a freshman in college when this original came out. It was a gift from the future, showing me what my (future) grown up relationships would be. After 40 years, it is looking back at what my relationships were. A song that is perfect at 17 and 37 and 57 is really something "Don't look back, don't you ever look back..."

Very nice! I have 3-4 versions of "Body and Soul" and was going through a similar exercise a couple weeks ago. Really appreciate having "Night and Day" taken care of for me ;)

We have a #perfect-songs Slack thread at work...very much needed sometimes. Here are my last several posts there to get things started here! Perfect update to a perfect song I perfect song from an amazing poem from one of my favorite poets Perfect song for my daughter's graduation weekend

+100 to this. Civility and reasonableness goes a long way