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In Reply to: RE: "There's no such thing as bad publicity." posted by John Atkinson on December 22, 2014 at 10:06:17
...but let's say Mr. Framer gets them to review them, and they don't work in his room. How would you classify them then? He say's NO, you say Class A! What in the case YOU don't get the chance to review them and make them 'work'. Are measurement then a tiebreaker? Why would the laymen trust the measurements?
Thanks!
“Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn’t. - Charles Bukowski
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> ...but let's say Mr. [Fremer] gets them to review them, and they don't
> work in his room.He would get to write a follow-up review saying so. Just as when I audition
a product that has already been reviewed in Stereophile, I write a followup,
as I did with the Revel M106 in the current (January) issue of Stereophile.> How would you classify them then? He say's NO, you say Class A!
The ultimate decider of the rating is myself. I am the boss, after all :-)
But if you read Stereophile's "Recommended Components," you can find
plenty of examples where my reviewers disagree. But what matters to me is
that my team doesn't disagree on the description of a product's sound
quality - they are all all expert, experienced listeners and their
descriptions are indeed transportable. Where they _do_ disagree is on the
relative value of the various aspect of a product's sound. Description is
one aspect of a reviewer's skill set; preference is a different thing,
which is why all our reviews include details of the music used to reach
value judgments.> Why would the laymen trust the measurements?
Because they are by definition transportable. If you read Stereophile's
review of the Sjofn (the clue), the measurements sidebar reveals why the
speaker sounds lean even when used against the wall; why its balance
will be susceptible to small changes in toe-in; why the speaker's balance
will depend on how damped the listener's room is; and why, even, its
reproduction in the lower midrange was odd, in that some musical notes
went missing in action, something that bothered our reviewer more than
the lean upper bass.Again, these measured caveats will be found in Stereophile's "Recommended
Component" listings.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Edits: 12/23/14
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“Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn’t. - Charles Bukowski
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