Trust me, I am a Hi Fi Reviewer

Trust me, I am a Hi Fi Reviewer !

( Part 2 - Listening Panel Review and www.audioreview.com )

DIFFERENT people have DIFFERENT taste

Some people like chocolate ice cream,
and some people like strawberry ice cream.

If you give an ice cream reviewer (who hate strawberries)
the BEST strawberry ice cream (made with REAL strawberries and cream),
the ice cream reviewer (who hate strawberries)
will say that the BEST strawberry ice cream taste terrible !

How do you get round this problem of PERSONAL TASTE ?

The answer is quite simple, get MANY people to taste the strawberry ice cream,
and the ice cream reviewer can listen to OTHER people's opinion !

You have exactly the SAME PROBLEM with Hi Fi reviewers,
and the solution is the exactly the SAME !

Get MANY people to listen to the Hi Fi equipment,
and the Hi Fi reviewer can listen to OTHER people's opinion !

This was ALWAYS done in the VERY OLD issues of Hi Fi Choice.

It is quite an eye opener to read that
there is always ONE member of the listening panel (made up of MANY different people),
who disagree with everybody else !

It is even more surprising,
when the "odd man out" turns out to be the "main" reviewer !

But that is good, beacuse the reviwer is telling you that
DIFFERENT people have DIFFERENT taste

Never trust the opinion of ONE reviewer !

Reviews by Listening Panels are BETTER,
but they are EXPENSIVE,
so they are getting quite rare in Hi Fi Magazines.

If you cannot get Listening Panel Reviews in Hi Fi magazine,
what do you do ?

The answer is go to
http://www.audioreview.com

http://www.audioreview.com is a marvellous FREE website,
where MANY owners of Hi Fi equipment,
write their own reviewers of their own equipment.

If you find that one piece of Hi Fi equipment has
20 DIFFERENT reviewers from 20 DIFFERENT people,
and the reviews are VARIED,
and points out good point AND bad points,
then you will have a pretty good idea of how the Hi Fi equipment actually sound like !
(MUCH BETTER than Hi Fi magazines, who seldom do EXPENSIVE EXTENSIVE Listening Panel Reviews)

If ALL the reviews are "too good to be true",
and the Hi Fi equipment do NOT have any bad points,
then you have to ask yourself,
"Has somebody tampered with the reviews ?"

If ALL the reviews are terrible,
and the Hi Fi equipment do NOT have any good points,
then you have to ask yourself,
"Has somebody tampered with the reviews ?"

Before you accuse me of wasting your time,
by asking you to read reviews that MIGHT have been tamped with,
please answer me a few questions ?

Have you read about a reviewer "visiting a foreign factory"
to find out more about a fantastic new Hi Fi product ?

Do you think that giving a Hi Fi Reviewer
a 1st class plane ticket and 4 star hotel accommodation
to visit an foreign factory
will encourage the reviewer
to write good things about the foreign factory ?

Many Hi Fi Reviewers are "free lance".
They write 3 or 4 pages of reviews a month.
How much do you think these "free lance" reviewers earn ?
£2,000 a year ? £5,000 a year ?
Can these "free lance" reviewers be bribed to promote a piece of Hi Fi equipment,
or "slag off" a competitor's equipment ?

Some "free lance" reviewers are 100% honest,
but there MIGHT be some who are not ?

How can you tell
who is 100% honest, and who is "bent" ?

The naive person, who says things like
"it only happen in FOREIGN countries"
should go to the back of the class,
and put on the dunce cap !

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