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Re: Ahhh...youthful idealism...

Posted by TomLarson on March 8, 2007 at 16:23:18:
I would like to read an honest magazine with no strings attached that I could trust. This is not youthful idealism...Im way to old for that. When every review is positive and half of them are raves, not only does it get aggravating and boring (at the same time) it means that the mags and the reviews ARE OF LITTLE HELP in doing what presumably they are supposed to do, namely help audiophiles make good choices in equipment. That reviewers do it part time is NOT a good thing. I see that you are a reviewer (somewhere) and so your point of view will naturally be different. Somewhere in a fairly recent PFO Clark Johnsen has a very biting but good description of the reviewing process. Im not saying he would say it applies here. All I am saying is I read it and it made sense to me. It would not, I think, be anything you would like to hear. You say audiophiles dont want to read about bad equipment. Maybe not. But some of them (me, if nobody else) would like to read reviews that were straightforward, that didn't hedge every damn word, that didn't 'justify' in some sense the price of every piece of equipment. That didn't pander to the mfg. I see this kind of thing pretty much only in the measurements section of the Stereophile reviews where JA tells it like it is even though he grouses and puzzles as to why his measurements dont (sometimes, often ) correlate with what his reviewer says. You can dismiss measurements as meaningless, but some of the measurements Ive seen of very expensive (non-tube, just to keep that monkey at bay) are disgusting. If I were a mfg of some of that stuff, I would be embarrassed, I would not want to see it in print. And yet, there it is. That's refreshing. Most of the rest is not.