The review wehave been promising is up

so maybe you’ll finally be able to understand the brewing cancer they are on this site.

@soix, With you on the job, I sleep well knowing Audiogon is safe from all kinds of industry mischief.  Thanks!  I need the sleep.

The acomodación price was dealer pricing not some ridiculously low price 

DAVE LALIIN OWNER

Tough crowd.

Even with a reviewer's discount it was a substantial outlay - not the sort of expenditure you'd make if you didn't really like the gear. Sheesh....

Tough crowd.

@aquint Not really, if you’re honest and deal in facts. Otherwise, yeah you’ll find this a little rough especially if you’re not accustomed to being held accountable for what you say. Speaking of which, still waiting, as per my prior post, for you to point out where specifically you compared the 432 with the Baetis in the review as you said you did. Also, if you could explain why you didn’t even include the Baetis in your list of associated equipment in the review that would be very enlightening.

Actually, I wasn’t able to complete the head-to-head comparison of Baetis to 432 EVO that I’d hoped to. The Aeon has only a USB output; the Baetis has USB, AES/EBU, SPDIF, and HDMI. The USB interface is an upgrade, employing an SOtM card and in mid-review, it stopped working. I’d developed an impression that the Aeon at least held its own against the Baetis but I couldn’t do the additional comparisons I wanted to – the USB output is the best-sounding one on the Baetis machine, and I didn’t think it fair to make comparisons with another. The Baetis became irrelevant, in terms of this review, and thus wasn’t even mentioned as "associated equipment."

That said—and acknowledging that, in part due to this exchange, I’ll be trying to add specific comparisons to future reviews—I stick by my guns regarding the importance of referencing the absolute sound and of using the descriptive language of our hobby to delineate what I’m hearing. If you don’t find that approach helpful, soix, no problem. But many people do.