Two questions. The cover of the issue suggests the Filarmonia is an "Artful Italian Amp". The copy of the review indicates the parent company is Spanish. Surely this is not a case of "they all look alike" when Mediterranean designers are concerned. Ars-Sonum's "genial factotum", Ricardo Hernandez, might take exception to that generality.
In the text of the article, John Marks suggests the ST-70's performance was good enough to make it known as "the poor man's McIntosh." I was under the impression that sobriquet was applied to and inferrred by Citation and had never been used by Dynaco nor any of its retailers or users.
Two questions. The cover of the issue suggests the Filarmonia is an "Artful Italian Amp". The copy of the review indicates the parent company is Spanish. Surely this is not a case of "they all look alike" when Mediterranean designers are concerned. Ars-Sonum's "genial factotum", Ricardo Hernandez, might take exception to that generality.
In the text of the article, John Marks suggests the ST-70's performance was good enough to make it known as "the poor man's McIntosh." I was under the impression that sobriquet was applied to and inferrred by Citation and had never been used by Dynaco nor any of its retailers or users.