Hasta La Ideas

If there’s an audiophile’s version of kicking the tires on a used car, I’m guessing it’s turning the knobs on an amp. Short of actually listening to the thing, I for one would like to feel how the knob turns, see how it feels in my fingers, and detect if it has the properly heavy amount of turning resistance that makes me think it’s well-built.

Well, some guy went ahead and started a blog called KnobFeel, with the sole mission of posting “Reviews based purely on the feel of the knob.” Perhaps in a bid to increase his international traffic, the anonymous poster (who hails from English-speaking Britain) has devised an interesting way to ensure his reviews hurdle any potential language barriers:

Here’s yesterday’s review:

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