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In Reply to: Example of how a bad review from an untrained critic can break a business posted by clarkjohnsen on February 22, 2007 at 09:39:03:
I am an architect and I can tell you that very few architectural critics are architects!
As in audio....the guys who really know their stuff...are actually designing and building. Being an erudite critic is a full time job (except for Anthony Cordesman so you can see what devoting only spare time to reviewing can lead to?)
So this brings in the age old fable......do you need to be able to lay an egg, to tell a bad one?
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Haven't seen his name on any reviews lately, but perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places.Reminds me of one of my all-time most embarrassing occasions. As a birthday present, my dear wife had bought and paid for some "consult" time from Lew Lipnick when he was in that business --maybe still is, for all I know. Ten minutes or so before he was to arrive, My Conrad Johnson Premier 3 preamp went silent in one channel (a tube problem, as it turned out), so there wasn't much for him to consult about. Nice guy as I remember (I'm still trying to forget) although I don't recall any offers to refund any of our money.
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Although he surely hoped it would.
Crown should have challenged him to a double blind test.
That would have been telling.
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