Critic's Corner

Posted by Bruce Kendall (D) on November 05, 2009 at 09:59:49

In Reply to: RE: Just wondering..... posted by jbcortes on November 04, 2009 at 12:32:25

I haven't seen the ads yet, but if I somehow manage to get more out of them than I usually get from an ad, that will be a good thing.

So now you have me wondering what your -- and others -- impression of the last issue of TAS is.

• Continental european sensitivities to this sort of practice differ from those in the US... - Frihed89 03:26:06 11/06/09 (1)
  In Reply to: RE: Television infomercials must drive you completely bonkers then. posted by Bruce Kendall on November 05, 2009 at 09:59:49

  Truth in advertising, conflict of interests have different definitions, legally, and different meanings, culturally, all over the world.
  
  I know just accept it: without the US participation in WWII, we'd all be Nazis! No, more ikley, we'd have been communists until the US saved us from the USSR (again).
  
  Keep smiling
  
  
  "Live free or die"
  
  

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  • Did you accidentally stumble upon a VFW bar over there? -t - Bruce Kendall 09:12:02 11/06/09 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: Continental european sensitivities to this sort of practice differ from those in the US... posted by Frihed89 on November 06, 2009 at 03:26:06

    
    
    
    
    
    

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• RE: Television infomercials must drive you completely bonkers then. - jbcortes 10:55:04 11/05/09 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Television infomercials must drive you completely bonkers then. posted by Bruce Kendall on November 05, 2009 at 09:59:49

  I actually don't watch that much TV, plus I'm French and living in the UK. In both of these countries, advertising on TV is not nearly as present and intrusive as it is in the US.
  
  I actually decided to stop reading TAS a couple of months ago. I was just fed up opening the magazine and reading rave reviews every month. I don't know how many "best ever" CD players they're reviewed over the past year but I remember being a bit puzzled... I remember one issue where a rather cheap DAC was qualified one of the best digital replay out there, as was the über-expensive CDP featured in a an another article a few pages later. Didn't make any sense at all.
  
  I also got a general feeling that reviewers were overall less "qualified", or maybe experienced is a better word, than Stereophile's. I have read reviews in TAS of equipment I've owned which were way too generic, superficial, almost amateurish. I.e, I think I would've done a much better done reviewing the equipment in question. I don't have this feeling when I read Stereophile, whose editorial staff is much more solid for me and has earned my respect (not that I agree with everything they write).
  
  Anyway, just to say I haven't looked at the latest TAS!
  
  Jean-Baptiste
  

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