The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them

TAS is nothing but a glorified product catalogue for their advertisers.

Big +1.  TAS reviews read like product ads and nothing more.  Shameful and utterly useless drivel. 

At least Stereophile does measurements and usually compares a review product to something comparable.  TAS?  Nuthin’.  Hell, many times they don’t even bother listing the gear in the reviewer’s reference system.  What???  Pure advertising and utter garbage and totally worthless “reviews” IMO. 

I'm really curious as to why Fremer left Stereophile for TAS. They must have made him an offer he couldn't refuse.I gave up on TAS when Robert Harley took over.

@bdp24 I’m sure they coughed up big bucks for Fremer to lower his standards and dumb down his reviews to TAS’ “standards.”  Sad really. 

I lost respect for Stone when his review of the JA Pulsars was mostly done using them as desktop speakers in his computer setup.  Who does that???  What an utter joke. 

As a US distributor of high-end brands, I've personally dealt with MD, MF, JV.  I recall a wise old saying..."If you can't say something positive about someone, don't say anything".  I will say there are MANY YouTube reviewers that are quite insightful & honest and certainly worthy of consideration.

I have absolutely nothing positive to say about TAS (or by extension HiFi+) reviews.  Does that count as not saying anything?  I’ve also not seen a YouTube review that’s anywhere near what I’d call rigorous or worth a damn — ok stereonews.net being one exception, but he also does thorough print reviews so not just another cheesy YouTuber.  The rest of them?  Trailer trash showboaters that are all show and very little go.  IMHO.