Yep. More evidence. 10 to 15 years ago, subjectivists like Austin largely ignored objectivism. Now they have to confront it (take swipes at it).
Times are a changing.
I know I am replying to a 7 month old post, BUT I am happy that it does agree something I have posted when asking whether the audio press is really and truly journalistic or just an industry advocacy concern - but that is another discussion, however related.
In the past, the only way to give feedback to the audio press was the "readers letters" section; the audio press way of dealing with the disbelievers of the subjective approach communicating to the magazines to call them out was to cherry pick a letter that could be replied to dismissively, of course, without having to deal or giving the contributor a chance of a true discussion.
Then the world wide web and social media came. Now they cannot avoid the discussion. Not even in the forums they control, much less in forums like this, which probably has a bigger readership than any of the magazines. One thing was dismissing the late great Peter Aczel's "The Audio Critic", which was a labor of love driven by one man or dealing with the great Arnie Kruger in that semi-secret corner of the internet known as Usenet. A very different thing is dealing with the mass medium of first the world wide web, and then social media pouring derision on them.
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