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Gonski !! That didn't last long So much for being a 'hifi community' !! This is what happens to aussie enterprises here and yet a chinese made valve amp gets 350 pages of free plugs and advertising ! Go figure !

https://www.stereonet.com/forums/topic/576085-sydney-hifi-show-april-28-30-2023/#comment-6165412

Now over 350 pages. Quite possibly the biggest thread on his forum now. He must be hating the fact he can't delete or censor it.

He could but that would go against his claim of it being a 'hifi community' LOL

Quite amazing isn't it. All of that effort to stamp out self promotion on his forum to protect his paying sponsors whilst Wilsenten Audio gets 320 pages given to them on a platter without even trying. Even when someone else started a thread on your product he would eventually put the hard word on you to cough up for a sponsorship but I don't think this happened to Willsenten. You just can't make this stuff up

Ausie aussie aussie oi oi oi !!

Rushton has bought a RADAR to detect members who don't comply with his rules. It's all about shutting down the Willsenton thread that has over 300 pages as its detracting from his paying sponsors. This must be killing him that this amplifier has gained the audience it has, ALL FOR FREE. I hope people keep it up.

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Stereonet should be renamed "Willsenton Audio". The brand doesn't even appear in the brands list but doesn't have too. They got 300 or more pages of free plugs and advertising which is unprecedented for a forum that heavily polices self promotion of any local brand.

Ironically there is a review of the Audio Research i/50 integrated valve amp on the same forum which is pretty much a similar product to the Willsenton Audio except it sells for $10k vs $1500 for the Willsenton Audio. For the price Audio Research are charging for the phono preamp option alone you can have one Willsenton Audio integrated amp ! Go figure.

Once the chinese start making these products it then becomes a race to the bottom which is why I am hesitant to get involved at this level anymore and focusing my efforts elsewhere. I have seen it happen with DAC's, preamps, amps, DSP etc

It's too bad that he killed off the local industry by pitting one vendor against another and watching them fall like dominoes. They all but died under his watch and he thought he was on the gravy train with his advertising bureau plugging selected imported brands and now the chinaman is stealing away market share of those brands by stealth and right under his nose too. It's a case of what goes around comes around

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david

These posts say it all.

Yep someone else with a similar problem to my earlier pre's. It can happen with high efficiency speakers The moral of the story is don't throw stones in glass houses ! Anyway I silenced it completely in the later preamps

The DEQX in use by Barry emits a hiss that?s close to audible from the listening position and potentially nullifies some of the Select DAC II?s improvements over his existing MSB DAC V.

https://darko.audio/2015/11/the-select-dac-ii-msb-technologys-90000-da-converter/

Audioweaver is not hard, they are just not smart enough to know how to use it.

Or simply they don't want to legitimise its use because I use it in my products I noticed the US dude who has a competing product to mine only lasted one post and the person who was trying to promote it is now banned. He should have tried his luck promoting an integrated valve amp because he would have had more luck

cheers

Don't waste your time with those guys. They are part of the same club and we aint invited. They will take any opportunity to sink the boots in. And btw they were still using the noisy versions of those cheap DSP products when I released the UP2 and UPP. Anyone who is serious about designing multi-way loudspeakers will use Audioweaver over the canned solution provided by those low-cost offerings any day of the week. The flexibility that Audioweaver offers is just not there with those low-end offerings. The fellow who bought the last UP2 was up to speed on Audioweaver and had his AWD file ready to go before he'd even taken delivery of the preamp 😉

Not only that, with the UPP you can scale up the DSP processing capability with no effect on the audio performance or measurements and is totally transparent to the audio chain no matter how noisy the PC you are connecting it to ! Not only that, the same DSP chain is there for ALL sources including analog sources such as tape and phono 😉 See if those low-end offerings can do that ? I don't think so and yet they will sit there and continue to nitpick and bitch over one problematic customer that I had years ago with the first gen preamp and who made every effort to destroy my reputation. They are good at that. They all know each other and we aren't part of their club.

Some good news is that we will be offering a special edition of the UPP ie the UPP(SE) with even more tweaks and refinements as well as a slightly different case and guess what ? It will be even more expensive but well worth it compared to one of those expensive imported do-nothing benign stereo DAC's that are paraded on that forum all of the time. As you know with the UPP you have access to Audioweaver on both the on-board and external PC of your choice which is unprecedented. For those into FIR filters this is the dream solution for them and with multi-core CPU?s from Intel and AMD this is FIR heaven

PS It's good to see stereonet promote more chinese made stuff such as the nearly 300 page thread on that Chinese made valve amp. Wonder how much sponsorship those dudes have paid to date ? Too bad if you manufactured valve amps here and were up paid up sponsor to stereonet.

I wonder if Rushton will inform the Victoria Police and have me charged with a criminal offence because I used a carriage service to say that he couldn't design an amplifier?

But he might call the Thought Police and have me arrested for thinking too much because the last thing you want to do in this country is to think too much and invent and manufacture things because you deny importers their pound of flesh and you know that you can't have that can you !! This is what happens when you try and do what I have done here in this country:-

You have no way to defend yourself on his forum because if you stand up to him and his denial bullshit he bans you just like he did with me when one of his mods offered me cheap Elektra amplifiers and denied it after I sent him the proof. He doesn't mind kicking you when you're down and has demonstrated this on many occasions. That's just who the guy is.

I think AudioGeek is a bit of a piss ant loser who took an opportunity to get a kick in for him. It's a pity he didn't have something truthful and constructive to contribute. He's a bit of a bullshit artist too by multiplying "one" to "some".

I was just having a dig around as to who this AudioGeek dude is and this is what I found. Has owned both Elektra and Red Spade gear in the past so I am not surprised with his attitude towards me even though I have never met him before. These are two dudes that I have had issues in the past with and not through any fault of my own. They are monumental time wasters and game players. I was just minding my own business whilst getting sucked into their web of deceit. One was a perennial phone caller over five or more years abusing my relationship with him so he could get free information from me whilst holding back on everything he knew. The other one's partner wasted my time over a period of 12 months wanting me to build a DEQX work-a-like for him at great expense to myself  and when I finally had the germ of a prototype ready to test with his horn speaker system I asked him to send me his filter requirements so I could key it into Audioweaver and test it on his sytem, but then he came up with some cock and bull story about not having the 'settings' so he totally squibbed it and ran away. Then later on I found a copy of his brochure for his plastic horn speaker and low behold it says the following. !!



Yes the 'settings' were available all of this time ! Probably if I had of tested it with his system I would have picked up the problem with it that got carried through with the later gen1 preamp which was subsequently corrected in the gen 2 Preamps But no not with these guys ! They do nothing except throw roadblocks in front of you and trip you up and soon as you complain then you become the problem.

These people call themselves "entrepreneurs" but are anything but entrepreneurs. They have no concept of risk and place ridiculous expectations on others who are expected to take on huge amounts of risk whilst they risk nothing themselves and expect to take most of the reward which is quite a common theme in Australia. There are a few others I have dealt with who have engaged in this type of activity too. They go around with begging bowls wanting major designs done for them with virtually no money down. Ironically, they charge top dollar for their own products. I hate to be a whistle-blower for these types but I have seen it all before in other businesses so this AudioGeek dude needs to get his facts straight before throwing stones in glass houses. He needs to try his own hand at a design like this and then he can criticize.

https://www.stereonet.com/forums/topic/509166-sold-fs-redspade-audio-pse-144/

https://www.stereonet.com/forums/topic/308480-sold-fs-elektra-theatre-7-with-marantz-7702-mk2-and-audyssey-pro-kit-audio-only-pleasd-read/

Hopefully we will see them back in Melbourne too

See if you can find this on stereonet ? I almost missed it when I was reading the latest "Australian Hifi' mag and then I had to read the full page spread a few times to realize that Dennis the menace had nothing to do with it

https://www.whathifi.com/news/australian-hi-fi-show-2023-is-coming-to-sydney-next-april



However note the date on stereonet. 1 month before the Aus-Hifi show in Sydney

Check it out. Seems the stereonet website looks a bit more crippled than at first glance. Try finding all of the posts of a particular user from their profile and you can't seem to get past the first page of search results and it doesn't matter who it is either.



However google is your friend here. Lets find all of the posts by user joz that also contains the brand 'elektra' which apparently is not an official sponsor. We enter the following "site:stereonet.com joz AND elektra" into the google search engine or simply enter it in the address bar and we find there are no end to the results. Not bad for someone who isn't a paid up sponsor

Just to add:-

11. Surrounds themselves with sycophants and Yes men.

The irony is that you've been banned for trying to  expose it and I have been banned for publicizing it and yet the two mods that were responsible for promoting that scam are still active members on his forum with happy snap pictures of them at a recent stereonet AA meeting at some members place. Go figure ! To add insult to injury he then tries to bury the evidence with a vexatious law suit which attempts to blame me for posts made by other people which he ridiculously expects me to delete whilst having no control over them. Honestly, does the owner of stereonet really think that everyone is that stupid ? Does he really think that Australia is like the wild west and he can do anything he likes with impunity and with no repercussions just because he has total control of a public forum and what is said on that forum ? Well no he can't and that is the whole point of these threads on this forum  !

There are some privileged people who now own Klippel Near Field Scanners (NFS) which is quite an expensive bit of test measurement kit and which can cost up to $100,000 depending on options. Having said that, this device can do a near field scan of a loudspeaker which is just a fancy way of accurately measuring the frequency response of a speaker without using an an-echoic chamber.. But the downside is that it can take anywhere from 12 to 16 hours (according to a recent factory tour of the Magico facility) or more to acquire all of the data and that is the price you pay for not having access to an an-echoic chamber. This begs the question as to what DEQX are actually measuring and what have they been telling people they have been measuring all of this time when they stick a microphone in front of a speaker and do a 5 second sweep and then claim to apply an inverse convolution filter to fix up both amplitude and phase issues ? The correction is only as good as the measurement right ? What is it that they are measuring and what is it they are correcting ? Does anybody know ?