Maybe not like that BUT give oluv's gagets some love.Aren’t “reviews” paid-for advertisements cloaked as a review?
i can’t recall the last time I heard a reviewer say “this amplifier is shit and is a rip off ”
Maybe not like that BUT give oluv's gagets some love.Aren’t “reviews” paid-for advertisements cloaked as a review?
i can’t recall the last time I heard a reviewer say “this amplifier is shit and is a rip off ”
There Are Plenty Of Fish In the Sea
You'd think by this stage of the audio game, we'd have hit the bottom of the mix by now. I mean how deep can a mix go such that new gear keeps somehow getting notably deeper and deeper? Are mixes bottomless? lol
Another day, another veil liftedYou'd think by this stage of the audio game, we'd have hit the bottom of the mix by now. I mean how deep can a mix go such that new gear keeps somehow getting notably deeper and deeper? Are mixes bottomless? lol
Another day, another veil lifted
Review the reviewer before taking advice from them, if they almost never criticise things they review ignore them, they work for the people selling you stuff, not for you. This goes for everything that gets reviewed, not just hifi.
Sorry to be changing reviewers. Bit naughty, I know!
I don't know about you guys. For some reason, this reviewer irritates me.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChqk5g4OE6qRjNK9kMDfwiA
lol, just watching his intro vid there with the sound off and I'm irritated already!
I tried watching his review of the topping e30 a week or so ago. Unbearable nonsense is my impression.Sorry to be changing reviewers. Bit naughty, I know!
I don't know about you guys. For some reason, this reviewer irritates me.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChqk5g4OE6qRjNK9kMDfwiA
Doesn't he have a video where he tells viewers no to look at his review of some cables if they believe expensive cables are a scam. Good ol' Steve might be a product "fluffer" but this guy is just a straight up ignorant audiophool.Good post.
I quite like Sean from Zero Fidelity. He's fairly honest.
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This [insert random hi-fi gear] is simply wonderful, its sound is [insert random flowery highly metaphorical laudatives]. If I must nitpick, I would say that [insert random minuscule and inconsequential negative] but really it's a great bargain and well worth items twice its price.
Aren’t “reviews” paid-for advertisements cloaked as a review?
i can’t recall the last time I heard a reviewer say “this amplifier is shit and is a rip off ”
I remember the early days of The Audio Critic. Peter Aczel had some reviews that were so blistering regarding some products, they would literally peel the paint off your wall. A review of his in, I think, the fourth issue savaged the Infinity Quantum Reference Source, which in 1977 was priced at an eye watering (for that time) $2400 a pair. All I could do after reading it was lie on my carpet and laugh, it was that hilarious. Shame the early issues (1-10) are completely out of print.I've read negative reviews from Kal(above you) before. He doesn't phrase it like that, though. He's nicer about it, but you can still tell he didn't like it.
I had to reflect on this for a moment to realize/decide that you meant fire up a component, as opposed to, say, a doobie.I do wonder how many fire something up, listen and then simply send the device back, never speaking of again.
Literally?Peter Aczel had some reviews that were so blistering regarding some products, they would literally peel the paint off your wall.
Everybody got a hustleWell, he says he's honest, anyways. Like all the time. Both present themselves as "nice guys" and that seems to be the only thing going for them. I'd say his reviews are "worse" than Guttenberg's, honestly. Useless either way. Sean's professed love of "tone" is hilarious. Like Amir says, it's the equivalent of saying you like to have a green tint on your TV's color. Sure, you can have it if you want. But don't demand that the factory calibrate the TV to it (or even respect one that does), just use the damn settings. He's the end of the line for that generation of audiophilia that never bothered to think about what "high fidelity" means because companies were saying anything to justify their crap products. At least this isn't Sean's day job. The tide is turning against these problematic subjective reviews.
I used to subscribe to them both, but their reviews got monotonous since they are limited in their knowledge.