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Includes one sentence: Unamed manufacturer's rep complained about an unamed reviewer to author who uses a moniker!

One sentence within an article reporting what the author, who does not use his real name, claims an unnamed manufacturer's rep told him about an unnamed reviewer, does not qualify as an article criticizing a critic.

The general statement that product reviews are not objective is just an obvious statement of fact. Product reviews are almost always subjective sighted auditions by one person.

Objectivity in a product review would require more than one reviewer working independently, with all reviewers willing to rate a component honestly using perhaps an A, B, C, D. F scale with no "grade inflation", all reviewing the component in the same listening room (independently), without knowing the brand name/model in use, and no watering down of their opinions by an editor who has to worry about offending advertisers (there should be no advertisers).

The product review would be even more objective if repeated in another listening room.

And manufacturer's comments should not be requested until AFTER the review has been published, unless one or more reviewers suspect there is a technical problem with the component that would bias the review.
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007


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