Stereo Times review on the Tekton Design Encore Monitor

@jetter 

What was actually accomplished?   

Not a thing, and for that, I do apologize. I am sincerely not proud of just trashing someone else for little reason other than a flowery review of a product that I would never buy. 

Not all “experts” are created equal. Also, there seems to be 3 reasons against negative professional reviews:
1) P reviewers choose interesting components for their audience, usually meaning newer designs with good reputations - so expect reliability and performance to be sorted out. They do not pick randomly, which would lead to significantly more negative reviews. 
2) P reviewers seem to avoid publishing negative reviews because in our small niche high-end audio market, such a review can have major negative financial effect on the manufacturer. Some consumers may feel like it’s bias not to objectify report the good and the bad. 
3) If a P reviewer reports negatively, future manufactures may avoid using them for fear of a negative review.

As a consumer, I’d like honesty the good and bad to help my purchase decision. But to not perspectively seriously hurt a manufacturer, I think it best not to publish a very detrimental review to give the manufacturer a chance to correct the issues

+1 fan of @teajay - one of the better/best audio reviewers/writers 

fsonicsmith

Reminder to self- don’t assign any importance to what this person writes.

The OP has been pushing that speaker line and his" reviews" far too long IMO...I didn't know self-promotion was even allowed on this site