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In Reply to: That's why you are The...oh pardon...Mr. Nut... posted by mkuller on February 9, 2007 at 09:27:28:
In Britsh audio magazines you will often see products rated with stars, or letter grades -- it is very simple to determine which products are rated below average.Please identify one or two component "reviews" in American audio magazines where the reader is clearly told the product is average or below average.
Please identify one review where the reader is told to audition other (better) products, and not waste his time on the product reviewed.
Blathering about a product for three pages is not criticism unless the product is compared with other products at similar prices, and the reader is informed that the product being reviewed is merely average or below average versus its peers. That's real criticism.
Where dos one find definitive criticism (no "reading between the lines and trying to guess what the author really means" required) in American audio journals that are supported by advertising revenue?
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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...since they fit in nicely with your system, I would imagine.
Or are you?
And to think that Julian Hirsch is accused of never trashing anything. Anyone notice how the same people who regularly trash him are the first to stand up for the everything sounds really great, some even more great than others, especially if 10 times the cost, audio rantings of today?Sheesh, very little equipment back when Julian Hirsch was reviewing would stand up to what we have today. And for less cost. Is it his fault that technology needed to catch up with present day audiophile egos?
After all he retired from Stereo Review in 1998 and died 4 years ago.
'cause that be the only reason for your not knowing this. People here regularly trash a man who has probably brought more people to audio than Stereophile and TAS combined.Before anybody flames that, Walmart sells a whole lot more clothes than Neiman Marcus. Many of us here may have started with Walmart (Stereo Review) only to have have graduated to Neiman's (the cool guy rags), but most of us more than likely are not trust fund babies or .com millionaires.
Stereophile's review of one of Richard Gray's power conditioners (in 2000, I think) and Listener magazine trashed the Brentworth Sound Labs Type III loudspeakers, can't recall when that was but Rob Doorack could point you to it.
I don't have quick access to my Listener issues but I think the Brentworth review was printed in 2001. The manufacturer was so pissed - off by Art's review that he set up an entire web site devoted to attacking the article.Listener published a number of negative reviews. As I recall Art's review of a WAVAC amp caused the annoyed distributor to cancel his ads in the magazine. I wrote a review of the Roksan Xerxes X turntable that pointed out that it arrived with a serious - arguably fatal - manufacturing defect, it broke while I was auditioning it, and that it was so boring that I fell asleep listening to a favorite LP on it. A few years before that I wrote a negative review of a Pro Ac speaker that more or less destroyed Art's long friendship with Pro Ac's US importer. There were other less than glowing Listener reviews; a few that I can think of were of an Audio Note CD player, the original Blue Point Special cartridge, and a Naim phono stage.
I recall most of those reviews and, like most readers, I was sorry to lose Listener Magazine.> it was so boring that I fell asleep listening to a favorite LP on it. <
Aside from causing a listener to run screaming from the room, is there anything worse?
Major Failing:Blathering endlessly the same tiring arguments, shows absolutely no indication of being capable of refining propositions despire years of critical feedback.
Recommedation:
Avoid if at all possible unless seeking a cheap laugh.
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
That would mean one of use discusses audio,
while the other behaves like a spoiled child
with nothing to add about audio.
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
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