Ortofon A90 or Air Tight PC-1

auditors struggling to setup? They are neither qualified nor have any special talent or listening skills. After listening to a couple of reviewers' systems I could only look up to heavens to save the readers. I am suprised people still pay attention to magazine reviews when a wealth of information from more knowledgable people is available all over the place.

Thuchan: I would bet my money on your opinion than TAS or Stereophile reviews :)

Being a later comer to the discussion, I read most but not all of the comments. I am running the A90 with the Reed tonearm and with Pass Labs Xono Phono Stage (shall be writing a review of the A90 and Reed arm soon). The A90 to me is a near-perfect piece of engineering that is squeezing the maximum out of the LP and feed it through the tonearm to a phone stage. That is why there are so many opinions because people have different phono stages and hence different component synergy. My comments may be not directly related to the discussion but could not help but chime in.

"Just curious, have you heard Thuchan's system?"

No, but I heard some reviewers' systems and that is why I cannot trust their opinion :) Most of them do not make any sense anyway and there is an underlying conlict of interest because the magazine exists to make money. And what listening diploma or certification do they have that makes their hearing more credible?

But I will take something worth considering if it is recommended by someone whose ears I can trust (but that does not include magazine reviewers). I used to read them 20 years ago for serious consideratio, then 10 years ago for humor, and now I do not even find any humor in them.

"Me, I do not lay my trust in one's opinion unless I've personally heard their system"

Yeah, that is ideal it could also take away you trut ;-)