The words 'New Boss" are directly from the cover of a S&V issue...I am finding this site to be less original and focused than ever before and it's sad because this "follow the leader" approach is such a drab game.
Are you suggesting that I plagiarized S&V? Or are you saying the
new boss metaphor is a tired cliché?
Your mitt-full of charges contain a few serious allegations that warrant specifics. I noted you also used that
B-word, the bane of any commercial review publication.
But like a government conspiracy theory du jour, titillating claims of professional bias are far more fun to dream than to make any effort to prove or even constructively outline.
I gave full credit for the sentence to its writer. My application was nothing more than a colorful metaphor using a popular lyric that I believed readers would relate to. I cannot claim to have seen it used before although it’s no surprise in consumer electronics writing. I don’t believe the same metaphor being used somewhere in an old stack of S&V constitutes overuse.
On the other hand ... I have read way too many overly-creative, all-too-colorful
subjective audio reviews in hi-fi mags and to be quite honest I’ve had enough.
What sets Audioholics apart is that you won’t hear a reviewer wax poetic about a new power-amp transforming an old CD recording so as to produce …
"...transcendent highs that seemed to fill the room with the ether of fluttering angels."
Audioholics.com is neither following nor losing its way. In fact it’s diversifying and solidifying its place.
New readers will come for the snappy news analysis and colorful
Who metaphors…
They’ll stay for the most in-depth product reviews on the web…
…and the extra helpings ‘o cheese!
