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Mick Maloney is probably more like Ken Ishawata.

**I very much doubt that. I've had some long conversations with Ken
Ishiwata. He REALLY knows his stuff.
That is an unfair if not libellous implication

**Libellous? In what sense? Be precise please. I can tell you that Ken
Ishiwata is a VERY talented designer. That is not libellous in any sense of
the word.


He takes competent
designs which he develops in conjunction with New York audio engineer
Kevin Covi and fine tunes them so they not only measure well but also
sound good.

**Then why does he not publish any measurements of his equipment?
Very few audio product websites publish measurements.

**Wanna bet? How many would you like me to list, before I tire of listing
them? Here's a few (including some valve amp manufacturers):
http://www.audioresearch.com/reference210.htm
http://www.conradjohnson.com/It_just...-products.html
http://www.bryston.ca/BrystonSite05/...cs.html#sstamp
http://www.manleylabs.com/containerp...Y2K.html#specs
http://www.classeaudio.com/delta/specs/ca2100.htm
http://www.marklevinson.com/products...asp?prod=no33h

Etc.


If they do it is probably because they are trying to justify a product
which sounds terrible or has not been well reviewed.

**Utter, banal nonsense. A manufacturer who does not publish a comprehensive
set of specs is either lazy, or has something to hide. There is no middle
ground here.

There are plenty of products that measure well but sound
terrible.

**Name them.
Practicaly every transistor amplifier I have heard and a great
percentage of mainstream modern speakers,Measure well,sound crap[Mission
for example-no wonder they went bust]

**I'll ask again: Name them.

His fine tuning may even result in products that don't measure
as well [like some of Ken Ishawatas modifications] .This is pure
speculation of course.

**Indeed. You seem to engage in quite a bit of that.
Well I do seem to remember reading some reviews on the Marantz KISE CD
players that didn't measure as well as the standard versions[less even
frequency response,higher distortion etc]

**Cite the review.

Most of his clients couldn't care less about how well they measure.

**Irrelevant.

INot at all
have never,however heard from anywhere that they don't,and I know that
he takes great care in running each of his products for an extended
period on his test bench before sending them off to his customers.

**And yet there are no useful specs listed on his site for any of his
equipment.

Obsolete technology?

**Yup.

If anything is obsolete technology it is the monster transistor amps
you seem to love.

**Projection. I don't "love" objects.

These are the real dinasaurs of audio.

**Uh-huh. Tell us more.
The PWM/digital types are already making them redundant with their
greater efficiency,lower production cost and at least as good sound.

**Not yet. Switching amps cannot cope with low impedances and 20kHz response
figures. When switching frequencies hit 5MHz, they will be more interesting.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au



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