I can't help but notice strong anglophilic bias. It is as if these English iconic brands can do no wrong in the ears of WhatHifi and their staff. There are nine Spendor product review at the time of writing and all are rave review with little or no cons. Somehow the absolutely miserable frequency response is not noted. Even the most expensive Spendor product leaves out a major portion of musical information. The more I read the reviews on this site the more obvious this trend becomes. If its got Naim, Roksan, spendor, Creek, etc. on the front, the product is somehow infallible. You British reviewers in your 30's and 40's reminisce about products that had their heyday when they were in their teens. Now these once poor mans hifi producers are capitalizing on this apparent nostalgia.
Beware, when the rest of the public catches on to essentially apocryphal abstracts that you reviewers throw around, your magazine and the products you so aggrandizedly endorse, risk going the direction of the British auto industry.
Yes heard these with a Naim Supernait and Linn streaming source. Midrange was particularly impressive, guitars for example sounded possibly the most realistic I've heard, though the amp could have done with more dynamics IMO.
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I can't help but notice strong anglophilic bias. It is as if these English iconic brands can do no wrong in the ears of WhatHifi and their staff. There are nine Spendor product review at the time of writing and all are rave review with little or no cons. Somehow the absolutely miserable frequency response is not noted. Even the most expensive Spendor product leaves out a major portion of musical information. The more I read the reviews on this site the more obvious this trend becomes. If its got Naim, Roksan, spendor, Creek, etc. on the front, the product is somehow infallible. You British reviewers in your 30's and 40's reminisce about products that had their heyday when they were in their teens. Now these once poor mans hifi producers are capitalizing on this apparent nostalgia.
Beware, when the rest of the public catches on to essentially apocryphal abstracts that you reviewers throw around, your magazine and the products you so aggrandizedly endorse, risk going the direction of the British auto industry.
Yes heard these with a Naim Supernait and Linn streaming source. Midrange was particularly impressive, guitars for example sounded possibly the most realistic I've heard, though the amp could have done with more dynamics IMO.