highfihoney said:
most reviews are worthless especially in stereophile,where else can you read about how a power cord has a great bass attack.
This is the bread and butter of these magazines; HiFi did a "test" a year or so ago on expensive to insultingly expensive speaker cables. The test was designed to prove their point and, sure enough, that's what it did. I've seen the same thing in TAS as well as Stereophile, but I've got to admit, I really like reading Stereophile. I like the fact that Atkinson participated in a blind test and couldn't tell between
his own (expensive) amp and a much cheaper one...and strill wrote about it. I also really liked the one where Art Dudley did a review of the Audioquest battery powered speaker cables (wink wink) and even in the face of what must have been not inconsiderable marketing pressure, couldn't take the cables seriously.
Bryan...he used the phrase "bad, willful electrons!"...
