Bingo! Agree completely. Related to that, it is the reviewer who is able to write about the way that the gear impacts the music in the sound that are best.
Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms!
It’s almost sad, really. Some reviewers I’ve been reading for decades, when showing their rigs on YouTube, have absolutely horrible rooms. Weird shaped; too small w/o acoustic treatment; crap all over the place within the room or around the speakers; and on and on.
Had I known about the listening rooms they use to review gear in the past, I would not have placed such a value on what they were writing. I think reviewers should not just list the equipment they used in a given review, but be required to show their listening rooms, as well.
Turns out my listening room isn’t so bad, after all.
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@prof +1000 Some audiophiles are wannabe reviewers and some still are simply envious of the fact that reviewers get to play with all that gear while they can’t. Audio reviewer bashing has become sport for some, often with an unwarranted level of cynicism directed. Some of the bashing is surely warranted, but much of it is not and, as has been stated, reviews are simply a good starting point to making a good buying decision. |