Fitzcaraldo215
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I also did not see his name anywhere at that site, which was my point. But, iar80 was his shift to the Internet from the old published IAR, similar to Peter Aczel's in later years. But, iar80 has been completely dormant for about a decade, then suddenly this.J. Peter Moncrieff was the publisher of a Hi Fi magazine back in the 80-90s called International Audio Review. A basically objective type of reviewer more along the lines of Peter Aczel and the Audio Critic. Two of the better publications of the time, too bad there's little like them left.
I must be blind, where are you seeing his name, a page search also fails?
I never did find him to be a true objectivist, like Aczel, and he published few measurements. He was more of a mixed bag weirdo, often going on at great length about the sound of stuff in his own sighted listening. The sound of different capacitors or passive parts in circuit were one of his crusades. It seems he was involved in the distribution of exotic capacitors.
But, he also was enlightening sometimes, for example in his trashing of power line filtering devices with respectable measurements. However, he also went absolutely gaga over some often odd pieces of gear no one else took much notice of, with long, long, long prose expositions about subjective subtleties of the sound.
Bottom line, he is an iconoclast, but one who also seems to promote his own iconic beliefs.
Meanwhile, I have a very bad case of MQA fatigue - not from listening to it, which I have done but which I do not plan to include in my system. I am just burned out on the topic from all the mostly less than fully convincing arguments about it pro and con. So, I won't be spending the time to read yet another such argument.
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