With all due respect to
@amirm and
@paulbottlehead, whose "above and beyond" efforts and maturity/professionalism throughout this imbroglio are gratefully acknowledged(!), I just want to record one thought.
Given the growing likelihood of this turning into a moderator's nightmare and losing the signal for the noise
-- it sure would be nice, if for nothing other than the "optics" (as folks like to say), for, e.g.,
@John Atkinson to put one of these amplifiers though its paces on his test equipment and publish the results (with or without subjective commentary on the amp's peformance with recordings in the real world, as in a typical
Stereophile review).
I realize that's extremely unlikely to happen, and I further realize that the commentary on
Stereophile's website would probably end up looking about the same... but it would be nice (IMO) to get it into the public record in parallel to ASR's test.
I am now going to try
really hard to avoid cluttering this thread further with my own doggerel.
Thanks again, in all seriousness, to Paul & Amir for looking into this amplifier's performance!