We are kidding ourselves if we think this forum is mainly fact. Facts are things that proven or else are universally acknowledge to be true by everyone apart from the mad. Facts are hard to come by. This forum is about 90% opinion and 10% fact. Stereophile contains much the same mix, but their measurements are as factual as it gets. Long may that last!
Four cheers for John Atkinson. I have followed him since he started on Hi-Fi News & Record Review here in the UK in the early 1970s. He improved HFNRR and stood out as an innovator with his feet firmly on the ground. Stereophile is hugely better for his 30something years leadership. Jim is finding him a hard act to follow. Jim's editorial stance is quite a bit different from John's even though he says the mag won't change.
Those who question the benefit of measurements should note John's speaker measurements often confirm artifacts that the reviewer had heard (before he saw the measurements). But sometimes an appararently glaring fault in a speaker is not noticed at all by the listening reviewer. And that is not always because the reviewer might adore single-ended triode amps and horn speakers.
Four cheers for John Atkinson. I have followed him since he started on Hi-Fi News & Record Review here in the UK in the early 1970s. He improved HFNRR and stood out as an innovator with his feet firmly on the ground. Stereophile is hugely better for his 30something years leadership. Jim is finding him a hard act to follow. Jim's editorial stance is quite a bit different from John's even though he says the mag won't change.
Those who question the benefit of measurements should note John's speaker measurements often confirm artifacts that the reviewer had heard (before he saw the measurements). But sometimes an appararently glaring fault in a speaker is not noticed at all by the listening reviewer. And that is not always because the reviewer might adore single-ended triode amps and horn speakers.