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I was pointed out today to 6Moons review of Canadian Tenor amp:

http://6moons.com/audioreviews/tenor/m350.html

written by Mike Malinowski -I do not know who the guy is. I have to admit that I treat anything that come from 6Moons with certain grain of unfortunate incongruity. Srajan is in a business to brainlessly spin audio gismos and his slogan is “do not piss anyone” (This is the actual quote from him email). All those people are capable only for product-centric audio thinking and frankly speaking in terms of truly audio interests they are boring like hell.

Anyhow, in one of the “West Wing” episode there was a conversation between C. J. Cregg and Charlie Young where C.J suggested “Everyone's stupid in an election year, Charlie.” To witch Charlie replayed: “No, everyone gets treated stupid in an election year”. Reading Mike Malinowski’s article I felt exactly like I am being treated that I juts was born list night. I did not read more then 2 pages from the review as what I got from the first 3 pages was not credible enough for me. For whatever reason Mr. Malinowski so viciously willing to convince me, the reader, that Tenor amp and the Tenor company shell be worth my attention that the stupid selling underlings of this wring crap are truly put me off. Perhaps those Morons who are trying to write reviews should read in childhood less Robb Reports and more O’Henry but to ask those writers to bring audio wring to the leaver of self-respected literature would be to ask a Chinatown Whore from our Boston battle district to demonstrate some professional courtesy.

I like the Mike Malinowski’s spin that conversion the old Tenor 300M from the IGBT transistors and 6H30 driver to 350M‘s MOSFET and 6N6P drivers “took two years and $1,000,000 in R&D”. The 6N6P tubes are 10 times less expansive then 6H30 and the temperature way more stable MOSFETs are much-much less costly to keep stable than IGBT or bipolar. So, where Tenor spent $1,000,000 in R&D is beyond me. What is also beyond me is how the company made such a claim if a few there are a small army of manufactures and vendors to whom the Tenor owns large amount of money. Perhaps I was brought up in a different environment but isn’t it the rule the pay fucking debts first is the only rule acceptable for a man?

Then Mike Malinowski is trying to bold credibility around himself prosing that his familiarity with 75i OTL Tenor moonoblocks making him able to look into the new Tenor products deeper. If so then let to be very honest about the subject – the 75iOTL amplifiers was in a way a disaster amplifier. It has a LOT of sonic problems and it was nightmare to use. My primary concern is about out the 75iOTL’s sonic problems. The 75iOTL was placed in the map by Lars Fredell (not with Lamm’s help), Lars the reviewer who at that time was the Tenor’s distributor and dealer. I know very well the 75iOTL, I have them in my own room and there were a lot of events at that time about those OTL amps. The only comments from old 75iOTL user about the Tenor’s new amp I would accept as credible would be the comments from a person who clearly, honesty and publicly identify the sonic problems of the 75iOTL model. To open the writing about the Tenor’s new hybrid with the comments like this:

“My first contact with Tenor was in 2004. I was already the proud owner of the 75i OTL Tenor monoblocks - beautiful, transparent, with a wonderful 3D sound.”

means to me that the person is rather a fool or juts clueless about sound.

Anyhow, behind all of it there is an interning detail: I am non-deeply familiar with the sound of the Tenor 300M amp, the one that Tenors had before they “went to dark”. It was very nice, much different and better then the 75iOTL’s crap. Would the new Tenor 350M model be as good as presumably the Tenor 300M was? I do not know and I do not feel that the Mike Malinowski has any sincerity and seriousness to answer this question, so I did not read his brainless comment beyond the second page. It would be interning sometimes to have Dima’s 6E5P-bipolar Zarathustra II, Lamm M1.1 and the Tenor 300M driven the same low sensitively speaker in the same room to see how the amps behave. They all hybrids with Zarathustra II having 200W in class A and Lamm 100W in class A. My particular interest is the if the unique Zarathustra bias of it’s output stage would offer to Zarathustra any advantage because if it does then it opens a Pandora Box for a lot of derivative thinking….Unfortunately I am way out of the range of those speakers that would need those types of amps but it might be an educational for others. Perhaps sometime I would do some shoot out of that type of I found a worthy environment to test it.

Hm, I started with Tenor and ended up with Zarathustra II. Well, frankly speaking what Mr. Malinowski has written did not encourage me for anything else then just to take a good shower after rereading his commentary.

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