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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Buying a last cartridge.
Post Subject: The Jubilee reviews?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/12/2008
 Paul S wrote:
Art Dudley did a pretty fair review of the Jubilee for Stereophile a couple of years back. Of course, he is selling it, so one must +/- read between the lines. Still, he at least touches on/talks about the important stuff in terms of balance and dynamics, I think, and his observations +/- jibed with mine, except he uses no negatives so one has to guess the weaknesses by interpolating the "strengths. Anyway, another cud to chew.
I did not read the Art Dudley review; in fact I do not read anything about the Jubilee. What would one exposit from Dudleys? The problem is not that they are “selling” but the problem is that they do not write/think for themselves but rather they write/think for readers. This is why I hate whatever they write – their writing sounds to me like the cheap crap that many Russian bad writers have written during the communism time to please the demands for party propaganda. I am sure it was not the review and his desire to learn and discover the performance characteristic of the cartridge but rather the time comes and he got a new cartridge with a task to found a new set of soliciting and persuading adjectives and to drop them among the expected marketing lingo-movements. What can you expect from the people who build playback systems in accordance with equipment that they were able to extort from manufactures? After all I need a cartridge for sound in my room, not for the erecting my ego. So far I did not see the reviewers to write about Abstract Sound with respect to the subject instead the respect to the tradable commodity…

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