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RE: Curious

You are of course right. The problem for all audio equipment test reports is that they are not complete and the test conditions do not resemble the way they will be used in the real world. That is why the measurements don't correlate to what people hear. At best they are a vague indicator of what you are buying. What's left are a lot of opinions of variable questionable merit for a number of reasons whether that's due to the reviewer himself or the particular circumstances of its use which will probably be very different from your own if you had one. This is why I find the reviews confusing, incoherent, and of little value to me. However they can be entertaining. I'm always amazed at how many ways reviewers can find to say the same things in different words month after month after month. Look at reviews from 40 years ago. They read just like the ones being published today.


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