There is no reason to be skeptical of Stereophile reviews.
You hear some of the stuff they hear... and using this, you can correlate what the reviewer says... to what you feel you have heard.
Simple enough.
That is all the review is for. They tell you this repeatedly, in print, at every opportunity.
the next rule is that there can be no bad reviews in print, for any magazine, be it paper or web based.
To do so is to go out of business. So they look to only review gear they know they will like. Negative reviews cannot be tolerated by the magazine or the entire collective group of all audio manufacturers.
Any scenario which is opposite to this, would end much of the audio business that exists today. A lot of your choice in gear...would disappear. End. Nothing would move forward and no one would be making anything.
It’s a simple obvious logic.
Due to this problem, Stereophile additionally goes out of their way to say that ’just because it has not been reviewed, does not mean it is a bad choice’.
You hear some of the stuff they hear... and using this, you can correlate what the reviewer says... to what you feel you have heard.
Simple enough.
That is all the review is for. They tell you this repeatedly, in print, at every opportunity.
the next rule is that there can be no bad reviews in print, for any magazine, be it paper or web based.
To do so is to go out of business. So they look to only review gear they know they will like. Negative reviews cannot be tolerated by the magazine or the entire collective group of all audio manufacturers.
Any scenario which is opposite to this, would end much of the audio business that exists today. A lot of your choice in gear...would disappear. End. Nothing would move forward and no one would be making anything.
It’s a simple obvious logic.
Due to this problem, Stereophile additionally goes out of their way to say that ’just because it has not been reviewed, does not mean it is a bad choice’.