Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined?

A Charles Bukowski reference!  Happy Thursday!  My favorite of his:

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” 
― Charles Bukowski

Perhaps we see this more in our community than in publications.  Marketing is a powerful beast and fuels confirmation bias which drives purchases and then unrelenting defense and proselytizing of purchases; even contempt for others with different views.

Thanks for the machine reviews.  They are great!

I sort of get the glad handing of reviewers and manufacturers, the money thing.  

As a years long viewer of "Top Gear", I loved it when they would wholly thrash a European supercar for its inability to simply fit through the streets of its home country.  Or, point out that the talent of a large displacement Detroit engine was simply to turn petrol into noise.  It was brilliant.  I always felt that style of review could find an audience in the American culture.

"The essence of these large floor standers seems more of a Feng Sheu  architectural room divider than that of a respectable acoustical transducer of music".

"The robust design of the amplifier leaned more towards an industrial door stop than the intended conveyance of meaningful enjoyable musical amplification".