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In Reply to: RE: the best advice I have for someone into the hobby posted by Disbeliever on August 17, 2014 at 00:10:01
Reviews are only to peak your interest and give you an idea of what you MIGHT like to audition...not final arbiter that you have to agree with.
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Nonsense reviews can be very misleading for the unwary. There were reviewers in the past who I could trust but unfortunately no longer.
Edits: 08/18/14
Sure if you buy without hearing first...then you rely completely on someone else's opinion. If you don't trust the reviewer at least a little bit then I would simply not read any review by that person.
There are some reviewers whose personal gear choices and what they review are so far away from what I consider good gear that I don't bother with reading them.
And let's not forget that "even" reviewers can't agree on "what's best". Look at their own personal systems - they're all over the map! Despite their proclamations of this-or-that being superb or "best in class" or whatever, what they own is all personal preference. THAT is telling.
On BH's original point, it sounds good in theory, but as you pointed out, it's not necessarily true in practice. It's true that a sound system is a SYSTEM, as any competent audio engineer will attest. To that extent, I would expect, rightly or wrongly, that a company which makes both preamps and power amps would design them to work optimally with each other. But whether or not that approach extends to other components is a craps shoot, since sources, DACs, and speakers involve many other design disciplines and skills, and room design is a whole different skill set entirely.
Outside of the preamp/power amp marriage, there is also the amp/speaker marriage, which can easily go awry and end in divorce (replacement) or jail time (repair), or a longterm unhappy marriage. Since speakers are a reactive load, they greatly affect the performance of the amp. Their back current, generated by the movement of the speaker, can be a bitch for many amps or at least negatively influence their behavior.
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That is why you have to really look at what the reivewer owns before deciding if their opinion is one you would take seriously.
As for the all from one system: I have found very few companies that can put together a whole system that doesn't in some way sound too much like one man or teams vision rather than a closer to the truth approach.
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