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Re: There is Evidence-You Just Have to be Open to it!

--My last article was printed about 6 years ago. I'm not sure that was a different era.

I have a 1998 TAS at hand and I don't see you on the masthead. Were you writing for someone else? I think it WAS a different era for how reviews were written. Given HOW they are written now, no one will get a bad review. Read on.

--If you have actual evidence that the magazines are putting pressure on the reviewers to skew their writing in a positive manner in this era, please present it. Otherwise, it's just your paranoid fantasies getting the better of you.

Not all actual evidence is direct evidence. I think there's lots and lots of circumstantial, or indirect, evidence. That is, for those who can think for themselves.

--Sorry, I don't read the webzines. I consider the print reviewers to be 'paid, professional journalists' and I expect them to hold to a pretty high standard. And the first tenet of a good review is to entertain the reader. Anyone can write a review on the web.

Actually there's coming to be scant difference between the two in how they do their reviews. As I wrote it's all a bunch of "I like it."s. Just listen to how it makes this record sound like this or that. There's no longer any reference at all.

--I'm not sure the Stereophile review [of the MAXX 2] correlates very well with the measurements, so what difference would measurements of the speaker make in TAS?

Well, in the measurements section JA has to admit that there are things that he hears, to which the measurements pointed him, that he doesn't like. But in his customary manner he says these things don't get in the way of his enjoyment of these $46,000 speakers. Fremer has no caveats. As for Harley in TAS, his is just an "I just like it" review with a long list of disks that just make them shine. How nice. Not very different at all from the Soundstage webzine review, just longer and a better read. The point is, you can ALWAYS find a recording that will make virtually ANY speaker sound nice. That's exactly what they do!

--Did you read good reviews of those 'bad' speakers?

Yes.


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