solderdude
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Peter W. Belt passed away at the age of 87 in feb 2017
His wife continues the business.
His wife continues the business.
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Review and Measurements of Totaldac d1-six DAC
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I wonder how much of this totaldac debacle had to do with his decision to shut down the site so abruptly. My guess is his website was generating an embarrassingly low number of views each month and it didn't make financial sense to keep it going. What does retiring from hifi mean? He's done doing professional reviews? He's going to sell all his equipment? I also heard he just got a bunch of equipment in for review, like Dartzeel and Mola Mola. What a shame we wont see his lovely opinions on said gear.
I wonder how much of this totaldac debacle had to do with his decision to shut down the site so abruptly. My guess is his website was generating an embarrassingly low number of views each month and it didn't make financial sense to keep it going. What does retiring from hifi mean? He's done doing professional reviews? He's going to sell all his equipment? I also heard he just got a bunch of equipment in for review, like Dartzeel and Mola Mola. What a shame we wont see his lovely opinions on said gear.
graz_lag
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https://twitteringmachines.com/farewell/
I wonder how much of this totaldac debacle had to do with his decision to shut down the site so abruptly. My guess is his website was generating an embarrassingly low number of views each month and it didn't make financial sense to keep it going. What does retiring from hifi mean? He's done doing professional reviews? He's going to sell all his equipment? I also heard he just got a bunch of equipment in for review, like Dartzeel and Mola Mola. What a shame we wont see his lovely opinions on said gear.
Indeed, just did a quick comparison on SimilarWeb ...
The Avg. Visit Duration & Page per Visit explain a lot abt. the differences in the page quality content in comparison to ASR.
Although a little bit better, Darko Audio loses within the same performances.
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assuming the data is clean (lol), Jesus, 70% bounce rate in no way looks good for the website at all
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IN CASE you find Amir's reviews a bit dry, it is time to have a rest from the realms of science and chill out in the land of audiophilia:
http://hifiknights.com/reviews/sources/totaldac-d1-integral-headphone/
http://hifiknights.com/reviews/sources/totaldac-d1-integral-headphone/
BillG
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Whoever wrote that - I didn't bother to read their name - isn't a reviewer, but more of a marketeer. I have to admire their product photography, though...
blah blah blah delta sigma bad blah blah blah R2R good blah blah blah insert more audiophile myths here blah blah blah
still can’t beat my USD 220 device.
invaderzim
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Whoever wrote that - I didn't bother to read their name - isn't a reviewer, but more of a marketeer. I have to admire their product photography, though...
Very well put. There are a lot of 'reviewers' online that are really marketing reps.
And do they get paid by the word? Their writing and speaking is so overly flowery and takes 100 words to say what 10 would say.
A guy at work wanted to start doing reviews on youtube and my first question to him was 'how are you going to kill more than 2 minutes talking about each item?
There's not many that aren't.
invaderzim
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I did go soft with using 'a lot' as I can't think of any that aren't.
Someone scribbling on paper for $10 is overpriced; someone scribbling on paper for 1.5 million is art.
A DAC for $200 is overpriced junk, a DAC for $15,000 is a work of art.
Yeah this is one thing that really annoys me, large parts of these “online reviews” I consider to be no better than rambling since to my mind, in terms of content offered there is no difference between the two
I would hazard a guess and think that is also why I get mighty bored of most “online reviews” very quickly and just go do something else after reading 3 paragraphs, I cannot stand reading 3 paragraphs of nothing in a row
I'm going to put my old ( decade or more) underpants on eBay then.
Has any man in history actually thrown a pair of underpants away ?
Why? Give them a scrape and they'll be good for another ten years. Waste not want not.
Are they really the ones to blame when in fact they would cease to exist very quickly if there wouldn't be enough "followers" to watch them?
Just look at the information and knowledge accumulated here on ASR. The only thing you have to do is to reach to it via the search field and yet not many people does that. So who is really to blame, "online reviewers" or their ignorant "flock of followers"?
No, but I did manage to loose some of them on some weird occasions. That though happened when I was young. Now I take care of my underpants much better.
I bet @Sal1950 has underpants that have seen him through all his wife's ha ha
i’d agree followers aren’t fault free either, they basically enable the behaviour of reviewers.
i mean, you actually see this kind of thing in the gaming industry also, the companies themselves basically releasing incomplete games at launch with a lot of additional monetisation garbage yet the consumers themselves are stupid enough to keep giving money to these companies
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