Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!hplabsc!labelle From: labelle@hplabsc.UUCP (WB6YZZ La Belle) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Review: The new TR Message-ID: <2393@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 13:11:56 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.2393 Posted: Mon Feb 11 13:11:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 13:34:14 EST Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 23 The new, improved "Translinear Rectamodulator" This new piece of audio gear featuring linear phase, broadband balanced, multiple connection technology is not all that it's cracked up to be! In a totally subjective test, performed by me, it passed with flying colors except for a couple of extremely annoying sonic signatures. The high upper midrange (just below and slightly to the left of or slightly in front of depending on seating arrangements, the lowest treble) contained a muddled edginess, nervously constrained but not anomalous to veiled intermodulation. The grungy confused image wandered aimlessly about, seeking acoustic texture and ambience. It's analog counterpart might be com- pared to a platinum plated boron cantilever as compared to a titanium dipped single-crystaline sapphire structure with multiple magnetic field technology. I also had to wade through the muddy base on intertransient percussive bursts as they lost stability attempting to climb into the inner detailing of the quantum phonons. The midrange was basically toxic free except for a turbid, somewhat beffudled character which seemed to disorder the perform- ance and remove the silky sheen and milky luster from the instrumental voices. GEORGE