tuga
Major Contributor
Read together with your your comments on subjective listening and the PIR curve in the 705p review, this review comes across as a bit disingenuous.
Disingenuous is a bit of a strong word imho - it's all relative to the orders of the speakers being tested. Forst example, the first amplifiers and AVRs were reviewed a bit harshly imho, because we were expecting DAC like performance for amplifiers and stand alone amplifier performance for AVRs. As the sample size builds up, expectations were a bit reset and an AVR that would have been panned if it had been tested first now gets a pass on cost/performance/field average.
In my view, the subjective listening tests, as currently performed, are a pointless exercise and the information is of no use to others.
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