Apple, Leaks and hum

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I'd just like to add my thoughts to some of the issues raised by your writers in recent issues, firstly, Apple-type 'hi-fi' devices. Around three or four years ago I was paid by a market research company to listen to digital sound clips through headphones and rate them from 'poor' through 'average' to 'excellent'. The best grade I gave was 'average', and that to only a handful of an hour's worth of samples. I wasn't told the identity of the organisation that commissioned the evaluation, but all I can say about the clips is that if they are in any way representative of the sounds produced by products now masquerading as 'hi-fi' then the perpetrators of these devices are truly in breach of the Trades Descriptions Act.