Honesty of the Reviewers

i just recently watched a best hifi product of the year video from Andrew Robinson and couldn't have disagreed more. Based on that, not honest at all. 

@cd318

before I came here, I read, for about 3 decades: car reviews. Every car that just was released got rave reviews and the others came in 2nd, 3rd and 4th. I could tell the pattern, the reviewer had to be able to

1) hype up the product

2) be able to defend their review later

3) be able to justify saying bad things about the product later

It was pretty obvious that they weren’t independent.

I find the audio reviews similar, although more nuanced, e.g., Darko never says: A is better than B, he’d say A is better in a small, untreated room ad B is better in conditions x,y,z.

And I am OK with it, I learned to infer the relevant information from it.

But when someone claims that the best speaker between 1 and 2 grand is one that is absolutely an inferior product to nearly any in the category (I would have a hard time finding a product that is worse), I will stop watching

re "primarily entertainment value only" 

well they are not that entertaining. We are paying dearly for watching those reviews, we better get some value out of it. Please. It's my time, my watching ads, my going through a bunch of info I don't need. 

Also, nobody mixes and presents information and entertainment well, they do either one. 

The funny thing about these youtubers is how much they talk about themselves. I understand that the reason people get in front of a camera is because they believe they are interesting and need to be heard but hanging a sign on the teleprompter: "it's not about you, it's about what you are reviewing" would help. A lot.