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In Reply to: Unlike in the old days of Stereophile posted by Charles Hansen on August 25, 2017 at 21:45:36:
I think there is review inflation, as you correctly put it, because there is no standard for reviews today. It doesn't matter if there are more or fewer reviewers if there is not a standard against which to assess components. My own favorite (but now historical) model was how HP originally ran TAS.* The standard in that day was for each reviewer to have a relatively stable reference system and a small group of familiar recordings of acoustic instruments in concert spaces, often recordings available to readers so that they could compare what they heard in their own systems to what was being described. He would replace the component in that system with that under review. Then the reviewer, who was a regular at concerts with unamplified instruments in real space** would detail how the new component brought him closer to or further from the real thing. That was understood to be a standard.*** A standard long forgotten. An objective subjective review. These days it boils down to "It has more this and it has more that and I like it."
It's been a very long time since I based a purchase on a commercial review.
*Tell me I'm suffering from nostalgia.
**I'm sure I read that HP required his reviewers to be regular concert goers.
***And that's why they called it TAS.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Unlike in the old days of Stereophile - Mel 08/27/1719:02:28 08/27/17 (3)
- Agree... - mkuller 09:24:52 09/1/17 (0)
- "there is no standard for reviews today" - DAP 15:09:32 08/28/17 (0)
- RE: Unlike in the old days of TAS - Charles Hansen 00:29:19 08/28/17 (0)
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