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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter
Post Subject: Do you want more attitude?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/29/2017
 Wellington wrote:
Romy, I share your skepticism of the audio media (ALL media, really.), although maybe with a bit less “attitude” than you . Audio reviewers are predisposed to like the newest thing, especially if they didn’t experience something better from years ago. In the Positive Feedback review of the Air Force One, the reviewer states: “Its quality is guaranteed by the authority of Mr. Nishikawa”. Guaranteed? Really? This is hero worship. Hideaki Nishikawa, designer of the TechDas line, had a much-ballyhooed stint at Micro Seiki where he was responsible for the final 8000 MkII. The earlier history of Micro Seiki is less clear, but I am led to believe that Nishikawa-San came to MS long after the 5000 was already developed. The TechDas Air Force indeed appears to be the logical successor to the 8000 II more than it does to the 5000.
Nishikawa-San is probably a very fine engineer and I wish TechDas well as it improves its product, but let’s not fall for marketing hyperbole. 

Everyone have less attitude then me but this is not the point. The point is not even about integrity of Nishikawa, I have no busses to discuss it. What I am trying to say is that a manufacture, any manufacture do whatever they do and this is fine. The definition of success and the assessment of the manufacture is the quality of product, right? Now. Do we have an infrastructure for proper assessment the quality of a turntables that cost over $100K? Nope we do not. The distribution network are a joke, mostly idiots and the will sell with the same integrity a fully functional perpetual motion engine, a dead rat on a stick of Hitler underwear. A few marketing executives, puffy doctors and .com nouveau riche folks who buy a TT and then proudly post online the picture of the new items are not really objective evaluators. The proper evaluation should be done by consumer advocacy – the audio reviewing but having what reviewing we unfortunately have we condemned the manufacture to produce crap. I can name dozens of turntables where very good intentions were killed by absolutely brainless reviewing. So, in my mind, considering that TechDas at very early stage very deeply entrenched itself with audio establishment I feel that it should be crap. But this is my personal feeling, I do not claim any specific knowledge on the subject. I could tell a LOT of stores about many other TT manufactures and how and why specific they fuck themselves up by dealing with high-end audio industry but I do not have any dirt about TechDas. So, take it purely my attitude. However, I also know that anything that I have seen in high-end audio that was worthy (at least Western high-end audio) was done by outcasts 

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