[AMPS] Watt meters and PEP

[Phil T. (VA3UX)]

BRAVO !!  Here here !  Well written John.  

Phil

At 02:40 PM 1/14/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Message text written by "Ian White, G3SEK"
>
>>Perhaps a certain hi-fi journalist could comment?<
>
>If that was a reference to my good self, I'm no longer a hi-fi journalist
>within the meaning of the act -- chiefly because consumer audio nowadays is
>dominated by bullshit, hype and assorted marketing-driven crap.
>"Journalists" in that field are just fellow-travellers of a massive PR and
>marketing industry, and you simply wouldn't believe the amount of collusion
>and handshaking that takes place behind the scenes. The UK magazine
>industry being what it is, there's no room whatsoever for anything
>resembling engineering-led writing -- or indeed anything faintly critical
>of the advertisers, without whom the magazines simply wouldn't exist.   
>
>I could tell you some fairly astonishing stories about some British hi-fi
>"journalists", including one quite well-known radio amateur. Suffice it to
>say that "reviews" of hi-fi equipment need to be taken with somewhat more
>salt than could be carried in the average American freight train.   
>
>73 John
>GW4FRX
>
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