I think that the approved phrase these days would be "Makes Mk1 Mana sound broken".

I don't know about anybody else, but that "broken" nonsense gets right up my tits. On a similar note, I re-read RG's Kalista CD transport review tonight. Anybody looking for information in there will be sorely disappointed, as is usual with Mr Gregory. What an absolute load of verbal candy-floss. Utter gibberish.