I very much enjoyed the late Art Dudley's Sterophile Columns. However, I could never get along with his use of the terms "touch" and "force" - for example (re his Altec Valencia's) "More important, they play music with such a believable sense of touch and force that they've transformed the manner in which I approach almost every recording I've played through them."
“Faithful to the recording”
I despise when reviewers use those words in describing a piece of equipment unless they were, quite literally, at the recording. Once those words are used, I pretty much stop reading since IMO the reviewer is full of BS.
Your thoughts?
And what key word(s) or phrases cause you to stop reading?