Home Critic's Corner

Discuss a review. Provide constructive feedback. Talk to the industry.

Re: the blind men and the elephant

You are wise to use speakers as an example, because speakers really do sound different. And I look to reviewers whose taste seems to be similar to mine, such as John Atkinson, Andrew Marshall, and Doug Schneider (all of whom use performance measurements of speakers, too). The late Julian Hirsch had a somewhat different taste in speakers but he could describe what the sound was like clearly and succinctly, so he could be very helpful. I ignore reviewers such as Art Dudley whose taste in speakers seems much different from mine; also the staff at UHF, although their mag is highly entertaining.

Now, with interconnects, speaker cables, accurate power amplifiers, CDPs, and such things, I would have to be convinced that the reviewers can actually hear the differences in normal use, and many times, there is no reason to believe they can. So in such cases whether their taste is the same as mine isn't an issue.

I get along just fine with ordinary interconnects and speaker cables.
____________________________________________________________
"Nature loves to hide."
---Heraclitus of Ephesus (trans. Wheelwright)


This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  VH Audio  


Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
  • Re: the blind men and the elephant - Pat D 04/26/0620:09:22 04/26/06 (0)


You can not post to an archived thread.