bidn
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May I respectfully comment, that while 'historic' (obsolete) equipment is interesting, the time spent on them subtracts from the time Amirm has to evaluate current offerings?
Thus I propose that evaluations going forward focus on products, say 2018 - and later?
There can always be exceptions that have historic significance, but other than that, anything older really needs to be ignored. There are far, far to many newer items that need amirm's scrutiny..
Sorry Cahudson42, but like many other I strongly disagree with your proposal.
It is nice that you clarify the unclear word "obsolete" by setting at 2018 and later, so that you make clear what you mean thereby, i.e. only testing devices issues for the first time during the current year and the year before.
As others pointed out, this would rule out the majority of the devices which can be bought new from the stores (not so many are put on the market), not to speak of the of those on the used market. And as they said, Amir gets only what people ship to him, returning the devices, unlike those many professional audiophile reviewers who get paid or receive super expensive stuff for free in return for faking to be experts and praising expensive pure garbage with seductive meaningless jargon.
I have an additional argument:
Testing not so new devices like the present and inexpensive Micromega MyDAC is not only useful re. the device tested per se, but also sheds light and gives an idea about what could be expected from newer or more expensive products of that same and rather unknown company (unless it is one of these scam companies already exposed on ASR) when Amir doesn't get the chance to receive those products for testing. Concretely I would like to give the following personal example:
Micromega has just produced the brand new and much more expensive ( € 2500) headphone DAC-amp Arche (two AKM 4490 in dual mono) for the Focal company. I recently had the opportunity to audition the Focal Arche and compare it with some other DAC-amps for driving the super revealing Focal Utopia headphones. While the Questyle CMA Twelve Master would make the sound fuller (I assume due to added distortion, in typical "analog" audiophile manner), I found that this [Micromega] Focal Arche would produce a sound akin to that of the Benchmark DAC3 or of my RME ADI 2 Pro, i.e. was playing in the league of professional HiFi, and was not one of those "analog" audiophile scams.
I had never used any Micromega device before nor ever seen any measurement. Now this positive test of this six times cheaper and six year older device is very useful for me because it corroborates my impression of what this Micromega company did with their brand new, high-end Arche DAC-amp, while it might take years of waiting, assuming Amir is still in business, for him to get hold of an Arche DAC-amp for testing.
You succeeded in having many members write something ...
All the best,
bidn