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In Reply to: RE: Not as clever as he thinks he is posted by lord addleford on October 9, 2014 at 08:15:37:
As a former reviewer I can certainly understand the impulse to play around with the form. Just before Listener's owner killed the magazine, I told Art Dudley about a wacky idea I had for a review. When he stopped laughing, his only concern was how did I intend to describe the sound of the device under review. He didn't object to an unusual format for a review as long as it succeeded as a review. Nor do I think audio reviews can't be intellectual. Jim Bailey, one of my former Listener colleagues, is a professor of philosophy. He wrote a brilliant review (of a Spendor speaker I think) that began with a concise discussion of two philosophical schools of thought and then segued into describing aspects of the speaker's performance as each philosophy would see it. Jim's novel approach did not detract from the review's purpose, to evaluate and describe a piece of audio gear. That's where Merod failed. Whatever useful information about the component might be in his article is obscured by the impenetrable prose.
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- RE: Not as clever as he thinks he is - Rob Doorack 08:51:18 10/09/14 (3)
- Could that have been... - cfraser 11:45:24 10/09/14 (2)
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- RE: I think you're right - cfraser 10:58:08 10/11/14 (0)
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