@gerryah930 - have you considered that products that are reviewed are actually pretty darn good?
And perhaps - that's why the review is (almost) always favorable?
After reading lots of reviews, I have found the I can generally tell when a product may be falling a little short of the reviewers expectation - they "generally' start to nit-pick.
And the opposite occurs also - if the product is fantastic the reviewer goes out of their war to extol the virtues of a component.
Sometimes "numbers" are not enough - you just have to learn to "read between the lines".
As for Diana Krall...
- a great many of her albums are a product of exemplary sound engineering/recording and final mixing and more often than not lacks that "wall of sound", which allows a reviewer to focus on the details in the recording.
- As opposed to another delightful singer, Norah Jones, who's albums are also very well engineered but are quite varied in their production and can sometimes lack the more natural tones of a Diana Krall album.
These observations are result of hundreds of hours of listening I my self have conducted whilst reviewing (as an amateur) a small number of products.
Unlike many, my reviews were not paid for, but I was enthused by the outstanding abilities of those products.
I'm not defending professional reviewers
- but there is always another side to the coin
Having experienced just how difficult it is to write a review that is engaging, informative, concise, insightful and more importantly useful to the reader, I think it is important for people to consider some of the "intangibles" at play.
BTW- do you collect stats on how many products are returned without a review?
Regards - Steve
And perhaps - that's why the review is (almost) always favorable?
After reading lots of reviews, I have found the I can generally tell when a product may be falling a little short of the reviewers expectation - they "generally' start to nit-pick.
And the opposite occurs also - if the product is fantastic the reviewer goes out of their war to extol the virtues of a component.
Sometimes "numbers" are not enough - you just have to learn to "read between the lines".
As for Diana Krall...
- a great many of her albums are a product of exemplary sound engineering/recording and final mixing and more often than not lacks that "wall of sound", which allows a reviewer to focus on the details in the recording.
- As opposed to another delightful singer, Norah Jones, who's albums are also very well engineered but are quite varied in their production and can sometimes lack the more natural tones of a Diana Krall album.
These observations are result of hundreds of hours of listening I my self have conducted whilst reviewing (as an amateur) a small number of products.
Unlike many, my reviews were not paid for, but I was enthused by the outstanding abilities of those products.
I'm not defending professional reviewers
- but there is always another side to the coin
Having experienced just how difficult it is to write a review that is engaging, informative, concise, insightful and more importantly useful to the reader, I think it is important for people to consider some of the "intangibles" at play.
BTW- do you collect stats on how many products are returned without a review?
Regards - Steve