In Reply to: RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? posted by audio39 on February 13, 2012 at 13:19:36:
While I sometimes find myself frustrated at the absence of credible reviews of a product I'm interested in and can't easily compare (sound cards, anyone?), I think there are a lot of good resources out there. The Internet, for one. Checking out the forums is a lot of work, many audiophile reviews seem to have been made by guys who have only compared something to itself, so you have to plow through a lot of threads to get a sense of consensus. But in my experience it eventually does emerge. Asking a critic personally can also be a valuable, since he may be freer to express an opinion of a product that he's heard only casually than he would be in print, or on the basis of what colleagues say.
You may not hear about everything, but you should learn enough to decide what's worth a listen. Reviews are only a starting point, anyway -- in my experience, you don't really know if something will work for you until you try it at home. But they significantly improve the odds, particularly when you know that a reviewer's tastes are similar to your own.
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