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Re: "if they charactize something as 'the best I've heard at the price' that statement means a lot..

As a long-time reader of Stereophile, TAS and (when they were published) Stereo Review, High Fidelity and Audio, I can tell you that a careful read of most of their reviews (the qualification "most" applies to SR and HF) will get you an idea of what the reviewer thinks of the product. And the "best I've heard" statement is not found in every review, even in SR, which was the least critical of the bunch.

OTOH, if you have no truck with subtlety, i.e. your idea of a "tough" review is for the reviewer to say "This sucks, man!" you probably will be disappointed. I get the feeling that is the real root of the problem the seems to bother lots of the conspiracy theorists lurking here and elsewhere.

I assume, of course, that these whiners dutifully subscribe to all of the ad-free audio mags (and to Consumer Reports for good measure) so they can get their information unpolluted by those nasty people who make the equipment they want to buy.

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