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In Reply to: RE: Are audio reviews biased? posted by scruffy_ on November 23, 2016 at 09:35:40
In fact any review that isn't purely technical is biased. Why because subjective opinions are just that, subjective. And there is no accounting for the variables that impact human opinion.
Over time, one does learn the bias style of long term reviewers. Note that in the case of SP (just using them as an example), they tend to assign components to reviewers who are sympathetic to the type of component. AD rarely reviews high power SS, while KR rarely reviews low power tubes.
The media can be helpful in creating a short list for consideration, but ultimately it comes down to your ears...how does something sound to you ? Do you know your biases ?
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Over the years ya get to know posters' biases/preferences, including music preferences. I pay attention to views posted by inmates whose preferences are similar to mine. Praise for gear/music from inmates whose taste/preference I know to be very different from mine is either ignored or used to disqualify what they're praising :-)
My first reviewing position was for a long defunct music magazine whose first issue contained capsule reviews of live musical events without any identification of the writer of each individual review.
My response was a letter to the editor conveying thoughts similar to yours and urging him to identify the writers so that the readers could learn, over time, the perspective (bias) of each writer. His response was to add the attributions and offer me a job.
That was a smart editor.
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