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Highly Questionable Music Suggestions.

Often when I peruse audiophile hardware reviews, in the review will be a mention of the particular selections of music used to evaluate the hardware.


Maybe someone is getting a kick back because I no longer buy those mentions before I carefully listen to them. Maybe those are well recorded “test” selections as an example, but lacking in any musical merit?  One selection I tried today today was techno disco babble, not even music. No lyrics, no melody, no harmonies and no voices.

 Allowing for different tastes and different generations still I wonder if I should trust this person’s ear/taste for any reason.


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When it comes to reviews of music, personal taste is an even bigger factor than in reviews of equipment.

Every month when I get my audio magazines, I check out the music reviews and listen to some of the albums that get great reviews. Usually I end up wondering how the hell those albums ever got recommended and why the really good albums with really good sound that I’ve found recently never get a review. It’s just the way the world works.

I’m really happy to be able to stream music. That way I don’t buy a highly praised album only to find that I don’t even want to listen to it all the way through once.
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