The general audience there seems to be more mid-fi, home theatre driven, just look at the review categories. Typically you find reviews there on high end brands that are better known, i.e. Krell, Levinson, Cary, etc. The reviews can occasionally be a good guidline but I tend to see too much of people validating a purchase they've made or trashing a product for no good reason. Reasoned balanced reveiws tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Another thing I've found when doing research on products I might buy is that if a review is of a higher end product it is often the first component of that quality level the reviewer has owned, so of course it's going to be the best CD Player, Pre-Amp, Speakers he's ever heard. That's my two cents.
Why no analogue at Audioreview.com ???
While I prefer Audiogon as an overall forum for it's colegial nature and the experience of it's denizens I do like seeing what is said about particular products over at Audioreview.And wheil may expensive audiophile caliber products are reviewed there seems to be a dearth of analogue.I find that a lot of the reviews are to betaken with a grain of salt as they are written by folks either "less informed" folk with more "mass market' type systems (said snootily) where the purchase decisions are being self-justified.Wonder what fols think of them as a forum but also why so little analoigue given the rest of the two channel gear reveiwed.Thoughts?
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