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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
When I meet Jonathan Valin I  laugh. Jonathan is soft-spoken, kind-mannered person who does not have that revolting attitude of a typical audio reviewer. Most of audio reviewers that I met behaved like idiots, claiming:  “the entire wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Valin’s syndrome and Koetsu by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]….both highly regarded Cartridges from TAS (Jonathan Valin) of course....[/quote] Yes, this is the problem. I do not mean the habit of playing bad record (that is problem itself) but I mean that people who in this industry...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Jonathan Valin smokes Lamm LP2 by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-27 
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What do you know: I invested into my entertainment and subscribed “The Absolute Sound”. Sometimes it is really amusing to read this magazine. Those audio publications quite long time moved in my home from the “toilet reading” into the section where m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
When I meet Jonathan Valin I  laugh. Jonathan is soft-spoken, kind-mannered person who does not have that revolting attitude of a typical audio reviewer. Most of audio reviewers that I met behaved like idiots, claiming:  “the entire wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by AllHammer on 2006-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
This post has basically wiped out the entire reputation you have tried to build up in the past. Rebutting a review does not make yours right, and from my personal experiences, you are indeed far from right. I can see why some people will not agree wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Jonathan Valin shell be an Alcatraz reviewer. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Valin shell be an Alcatraz reviewer. in Audio News  4 Replies 
People who read my site are accustomed that in my section “Audio News” are published the semi-sarcastic articles about different aspects of audio industry. This article however is far from satire and now I would like just to publish one none-invented...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Valin stuff is old news by now by clarkjohnsen on 2007-08-27 
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It's been all over Audio Asylum.clark...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: "Not So Sweet Spot" /Absolute Sound, Jonathan Valin Comments... by RobertG63 on 2013-01-26 
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    It was brought to my attention by a fellow member at our audio society meeting today that there have been some postings here regarding my letter to the editor in this month's Absolute Sound. I wont restate the total contents of my letter as they ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: OK, I read above. by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user=" Jonathan Valin"] Third, in Munich, because of the severely limited amount of time available for setup (and the severely limited space to set up in), Wolf DSP’d the U3s for phase but did not DSP them for time alignment.... In Cali, the U...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The “nice enough guy” syndrome. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-24 
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I have quite a confidence that if you meet and talk with Joseph Goebbels or Lavrenti Beria or with Idi Amin then they all will come along like “nice guys”. When I met and spoke with Valin he seemed “normal” as well. Hey even I appear as “a nice guy” ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Lamm ML3 price: how it works. by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm Industries: a special interview with a special company in Audio News  105 Replies 
It might be not directly related to the subject of this thread but I do feel that it has quite a good relatively. Are you laughing that your Lamm made his new amplifier with a price tag of $126K? Well, think again.  Do you remember as  the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The new old play…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Model 6 loudspeakers. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
I do not subscribe audio publication but sometimes when my level of venomous hate goes down to dangerously low level I buy one at newsstand. The last night I saw October TAS magazine in Borders with a big picture of Magico speaker on the cover I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: "Not So Sweet Spot" /Absolute Sound, Jonathan Valin Comments... by RobertG63 on 2013-01-26 
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    It was brought to my attention by a fellow member at our audio society meeting today that there have been some postings here regarding my letter to the editor in this month's Absolute Sound. I wont restate the total contents of my letter as they ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Jonathan Valin shell be an Alcatraz reviewer. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-23 
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People who read my site are accustomed that in my section “Audio News” are published the semi-sarcastic articles about different aspects of audio industry. This article however is far from satire and now I would like just to publish one none-invented...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Re: Jonathan Valin's strip show? by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
Well, after all I was pointed out to the place where the annoyed wonna-be-Magico-owners came from: http://forums.avguide.com/viewtopic.php?t=349&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=50 Nothing new, I well accustomed to the satiations when pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Jonathan Valin smokes Lamm LP2 by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-27 
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What do you know: I invested into my entertainment and subscribed “The Absolute Sound”. Sometimes it is really amusing to read this magazine. Those audio publications quite long time moved in my home from the “toilet reading” into the section where m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: A good industry person is dead industry person. by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-28 
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Robert, sorry but you yourself in the “doormatish” position. You see, many audio people elevate the individuals who write for audio publication to some kind of shrine level and attribute to them some kind of special qualities, expecting them to b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reading an official audio publication - TAS by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reading an official audio publication - TAS in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
What did you know; I was in Barnes & Noble and bought a first for quite long time September TAS magazine.  I do not subscribe audio publications but seldom buy them. Since I did not do it for as long time I though it will be entertaining.  It...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: It WAS the correct link. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
[quote user="Telus"]I followed this link since I wanted to learn more about the different viewpoints and counterpoints but I couldn't find any of the posts to which you refer.  Is this the correct link?[/quote]It was a correct link but the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Samuel, get life. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Roomy the cat is going to sell speakers?! in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Samuel, I do not think that it was me, and if it was signed by me then it was one of the numerous attempts of the idiots to impersonate me. It happened many times before. I did not talk with Jonathan Valin in direct emails and I do not ever hide...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: People you are so full of it. by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-29 
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After posting last night the post above I got a few emails from the people asking me why I am so angry and why I feel that industry people are valuable only in dead form. Those unfortunate audio people with their questions are so dull. I have exp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Never rests on his laurels by drdna on 2007-08-24 
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I admit to being surprised since I used to talk with Jon Valin some and he seemd like a nice enough guy.  Of course this was many years ago, before TAS.  I guess Absolute power corrupts Absolutely....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Hand Clapping by Frank Berryman by Romy the Cat on 2012-07-18 
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Frank Berryman posted an article on his sit: http://www.ultrahighendreview.com/the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping/… although Mr. Berryman is trying to address some typical idiocies that Jonathan Valin expressed but I think Frank is also pedagogically mis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Audiophile ...what? by Stitch on 2012-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Hand Clapping by Frank Berryman in Playback Listening  3 Replies 
Well, the first mistake from Mr. Berryman is the opening with something from this ultra stupid, corrupt Valin. Normally, a slap into the face of the last surfing cell in the human brain...Next mistake from him is, he write about Audiophiles like norm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: The speaker-reviewer synergy. by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
 I think 15 years back I was speaking with a famous industry person who told that the responsibility of an individual who run an audio publication is to match the stupidity of audio product to the stupidity of reviewer. he said that if manufacture ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #65: New Rating in future by Stitch on 2010-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying a last cartridge. in Analog Playback  80 Replies 
It would be much easier to name some useful reviews instead to rant about written BS which became standard today. In future we will get a new "Rating" System.Not for components, no, it is for Reviewers.For example:Complete-Master-BS-Class: Jonathan V...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: It is not the thread boring but you are. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shindo Latour in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="Judas"]Is this thread THAT boring?[/quote] Judas, I patiently wait until you realize that this site is not compatible with audio idiocy. I told you before that you are exactly the person who is a demonstrable illustration of what Audio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: We are already there. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reading an official audio publication - TAS in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Stitch, If you think that you are making some kind of joke then you are mistaken. In most case selling high-end audio to morons is a purely psychopathic game that takes advantage of compulsiveness of audio fools and their desire to be comforted.  You...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Continuum-like TT exists BECAUSE the Framers-like by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
Well, Paul, a majority of audio Morons is that in their infinite chase for a “better” turntables approach the subject of turntables’ assessment using fundamentally faulty techniques.   Let pretend, juts for sake of illustration, that a pric...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The truth by Stitch on 2013-01-27 
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That is the way the System works. Not the customer is the goal (he is only the tool who brings the money), the reviewer is the one to go for. The reviewer guarantees the success of a product (in general). Valin for example is known to be among the mo...
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