[net.audio] Review: The new TR

labelle@hplabsc.UUCP (WB6YZZ La Belle) (02/11/85)

         The new, improved "Translinear Rectamodulator"

           This new piece of audio gear featuring linear phase, broadband
 balanced, multiple connection technology is not all that it's cracked up
 to be! In a totally subjective test, performed by me, it passed with
 flying colors except for a couple of extremely annoying sonic signatures.
           The high upper midrange (just below and slightly to the left
 of or slightly in front of depending on seating arrangements, the lowest
 treble) contained a muddled edginess, nervously constrained but not anomalous
 to veiled intermodulation. The grungy confused image wandered aimlessly about,
 seeking acoustic texture and ambience. It's analog counterpart might be com-
 pared to a platinum plated boron cantilever as compared to a titanium dipped
 single-crystaline sapphire structure with multiple magnetic field technology.
 I also had to wade through the muddy base on intertransient percussive
 bursts as they lost stability attempting to climb into the inner detailing
 of the quantum phonons. The midrange was basically toxic free except for a 
 turbid, somewhat beffudled character which seemed to disorder the perform-
 ance and remove the silky sheen and milky luster from the instrumental voices.
 

                      GEORGE