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Neil McCauley
18-01-2016, 17:36
MQA Takes Off Big-Time in 2016
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JBL revisited: 4310, 4313B, 4345, 4425, 4435, 4435 II, BLS Reference
Clones Audio AP2 ‘giant killer’ preamplifier test review by Neil McCauley
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Breaking News: Arcam Solo ‘Gen 3’ Launch
Sonus faber: Venere S – the first Sonus faber Signature Speaker
STAX DMA-X2. At last, an owner speaks candidly – Part 1 of 3
Audiophile debate: Tandberg enthusiasts – pros and cons





All this and more at http://www.hifianswers.com/articles/

Audio Advent
18-01-2016, 23:58
Err... when you say top posts in the last 24 hours, what do you mean exactly?

Follow the links through and they come back to threads started on AoS back in 2008 e.g. the last Tandberg one: http://www.hifianswers.com/2016/01/debate-vintage-gear-great-sounding-html/ takes me to this on here: http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?772-The-great-sounding-TANDBERG!

Last post on that thread is from 2011 ?? JBL thread is from pinkfish in 2007..

Neil McCauley
19-01-2016, 08:55
Err... when you say top posts in the last 24 hours, what do you mean exactly?


Hello. These are the posts which in the previous 24 hours site visitors have selected (from our > 7k archive of articles) to read. These are not, of course, in chronological and/or date order; being ranked exclusively by popularity.

It appears, in the past few weeks at least, that our readership's preferences are towards older material. We have no idea why. We saw this last year, then for a while the major trending was towards interviews with jazz musicians, then 1970's receivers, and so on. It changes daily, weekly and more and so far we have not identified any patterns.

Our editorial policy follows our readership's desires ie reader-led rather than editorial-led.

For example, if there is a trend towards (say) vintage Tandberg, then we have more posts on that topic until the stats tells us that interest in that topic has peaked.

Re an AoS thread started in 2008, we take the view that the 'arguments' voiced then are still valid - possibly.

Again, it's our readers that decide.

Because it's old doesn't - in our view - axiomatically render it irrelevant and/or uninteresting. There is, in the AoS archives as indeed with other fora some golden material which, according to the statistics we receive, deserves to be resurrected.

Finally – for now – we suspect a major influence comes from our Twitter feed. https://twitter.com/AudiophileStuff Sometimes the number of 'interactions' re AN&MR as defined by Twitter runs into 4K > 5k per day. In the previous 24 hours, interactions were 2,616.

Thank you for your question and your interest

Regards from the AN&MR team.

Audio Advent
19-01-2016, 09:27
Ah! That makes sense now... Sorry, I was a bit confused by the statement.

It's good to get pointers to some older but interesting threads which would otherwise be left and forgotten.

Neil McCauley
19-01-2016, 09:34
Ah! That makes sense now... Sorry, I was a bit confused by the statement.

It's good to get pointers to some older but interesting threads which would otherwise be left and forgotten.

No need to apologise; no need at all. Happy to help and yes, some things indeed shouldn't be left and forgotten.

Regards from HP