Busted! Reviewer copies manufacturers sales page in review?

@rbstehno  I asked Fremer this and he said that the major mags only post positive reviews. They do not post equipment that would merit a bad write up.

Also, when have you seen a negative review of anything in an audio magazine.

@mulveling Astute.

But are we sure it isn’t the manufacturer who lifted this adulating tripe from the REVIEW?

Noromance- just because Fremer said something doesn’t make it better. All the top car mags evaluate multiple cars and only 1 is the winner. When audio mags can truly evaluate multiple products against each other and rate them from best to worst, then the audio mags are worthless to me.

jpwarren58- the good car mags do a good job rating multiple cars at 1 time, claiming only 1 is the true winner and the others are not. Something else that the car mags do that the audio mags do not: the car mags don’t always pick the winner to be the car that costs the most where almost all the time, the more expensive the audio product, more often you will see it picked the best of the best

One person's 'best' can be somebody else's 'worst', so that audio mags should still be worthless with totally subjective 'best' v 'worst' comparisons, unless you're talking purely about measurements. 

@rbstehno I'm inclined to agree with you on car mags but, as @larsman points out, audio perception and preference is very subjective. ​​​​​​​

just because Fremer said something doesn’t make it better. ​​​​​​​