On point, I think, but not often addressed.
If you don't know the music in a review how could you relate to the findings. A corollary, if you don't know the reviewer, his room and his stuff, how could his review be meaningful to you except in finding a consensus.
By way of example I read a review about a year ago extolling the virtues of an integrated amp, including its imaging. But I also saw photos of his system set up. Not SOTA, in fact substantially compromised. He could not have heard what he described, especially as he described it. I no longer take any interest in his reviews.
If you don't know the music in a review how could you relate to the findings. A corollary, if you don't know the reviewer, his room and his stuff, how could his review be meaningful to you except in finding a consensus.
By way of example I read a review about a year ago extolling the virtues of an integrated amp, including its imaging. But I also saw photos of his system set up. Not SOTA, in fact substantially compromised. He could not have heard what he described, especially as he described it. I no longer take any interest in his reviews.