, I tried listening to some of the stuff herb lists as his favourite tracks inside detailed reviews..i found them very hard to listen to or engage with..it's hard to visualise their words and correlate to tools they use when the music they listen to.doesnt come anywhere near your zipcode for sensitivity.
This is just a side comment i really wanted to align with herbs description and use that as reference to understand the rest of the audiophile reviewers in relative sense. I just could not get there. Gave up and it much easier for me to relate to ghazal based listeners comments or even.bollywood listeners comments provided they are also savvy or ahead of the curve.
Bhooshan, It’s always good to find a competent reviewer whose musical tastes are similar to ours. In such cases it’s easy to identify with their expressions and descriptions.
Ofcourse there is also their skill in putting their perceptions and descriptions into words. Some are better than others.
I think Herb, Steve G, the late Art Dudley do/did a competent and often entertaining job of this.
If you or anyone knows about Indian reviewers who are doing good reviews please share.
(ABA - A British Audiophile has clearly underlined his preferred identity in his avatar name, as is his right)
I do like Darko’s understated style and believe he puts a great deal of effort and chooses his words very carefully.
But he seems to only post reviews of equipment that he likes. I wish he would post those he reviewed and did not like as well. I guess there must be compelling reasons for this.
Golden sound has not posted a review in months after he was threatened with a law suit over his negative review of the DCS Barton DAC.
Zero Fidelity has also stopped posting since a year (?)
Maybe this topic (Audio reviews and reviewers) should be a separate thread?
