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    Stereophile's Jim Austin Says Streaming Atmos Sucks

    Stereophile Editor-in-Chief Jim Austin has a new As We See It column, entitled Dolby Atmos: A Bleak Shadow? Here, Austin is continuing his one-man crusade against Atmos as it's currently streamed by Apple Music. (To be clear, Austin is criticizing "lossy" Atmos as streamed. Not lossless Atmos...
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    New Year's 2024 Audiophile resolutions

    It's that time of year again! I've been thinking about what I'd like to do audio-wise in 2024 and was wondering what others in the ASR community are thinking about. Here are my three "resolutions": 1) Try some cheap schiiiit In 2024, I plan to finally take the low-cost plunge and get a Class...
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    How "bad" must a Speaker be for normies to notice?

    All of us here at ASR are accustomed to detailed tech dumps on speakers, in the many wonderful analyses by Amir and others. So I was wondering about the people -- probably the majority of buyers -- who don't look at any of that stuff. It raises a whole bunch of questions, and I was wondering if...
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    Stereophile's Jim Austin disagrees w Atkinson; says tubes have something that can't be measured

    In Stereophile's review of the Mastersound 845 Compact integrated amplifier, which is a tube amp, editor in chief Jim Austin is once again publicly disagreeing with a reviewer; this time it's John Atkinson. Basically, the TL;DR is that in the measurements section of the review, Atkinson (JA1)...
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