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In Reply to: RE: Interesting post from another forum posted by RGA on September 17, 2017 at 00:38:05:
Good post.Personally, it goes like this for me. One, I need to read a series of reviews by a specific reviewer to know how their tastes jive with mine, with products I have heard or have personal experiences with. That means I read the current press, because that's what it takes.
Second, it's just a review. I have never bought a product based on a single review, or multiple positive reviews. I know of many products that have never been reviewed in the usual sources. Some are great, some not so much. But the gamut runs bigger than the reviews partly because there are more products than pages. And as JA points out, the audio landscape is bigger today than at any time in the past.
I don't assume reviewers are unbiased ... no-one is ... but I do assume they take the job seriously and try, as journalists, to keep an open mind. Some may be better than others, but I don't know of many that don't at least try.
You need to be familiar with a huge set of gear to be able to reasonably review any one component. That reviewers are "part of the Industry" seems to me to not only be a natural occurrence, but a necessity. It does not make them shills. It makes them in tune with the pulse of Audio, a necessary requirement to hold down the job.
Personal jibes may reflect many things but in the end they don't result in more honest, useful and interesting writing. In that respect, I can live without them.
With regard to "Industry Accommodation" pricing, well, distributors want their product used by those who are in the Industry. They take little or no profit from the sale; that's how those prices are established. If i recall they usually come with a stipulation about reselling within a certain elapsed time period.
And audio gear is not cheap ... reviewers fall off their wallets and spend more than most audiophiles on gear, plain and simple, regardless of the price for any one component. People in the industry buy products they don't actually make, to build systems at home that are more serious than they would otherwise buy if they sold Audis. I'm OK with that.
I WANT my reviewers to have good systems at home. And no-one spends more (realistically) than they can afford. Why wouldn't you want the best your budget can accomodate? I do too. So what if their dollar goes further than mine. it's their job; I would expect nothing otherwise.
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