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Audio reviews: too many analogies, never simple, but most of all, never clear.

How many reviews have you read were it takes at least 2 paragraphs for the the reviewer to actually give 
hint this article is actually audio related or even gives mention to what he or she’s reviewing. Get to the subject matter. Leave out your less than perfect dramatic writing skills and lets start hearing about the actual review. I’d rather hear about comparisons between audio components than analogies between wine and taste related to transparency and how that gives rise to what they are getting ready say. What does wine have to do with audio transparency, nothing! Also they have a tendency to talk more about recordings that I’m sure 99% of the readers of the article have never heard of, or would ever listen to.
And when you looking for some sign of what they actually think of the components they’re reviewing they never give you a straight answer; it’s always something that leaves, at least for myself, asking, well where’s the answer. 
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I know what the OP is complaining about.

 I don't always have any interest in whatever maunderings the reviewer indulges in (like the late Mr. Dudley and those frickin' bunnies), but reviewing audio must be a fairly dry pursuit and saying the same things over and over a mind numbing activity, so I endure the prologues and check them for any interest level on my part, then ignoring the ones that don't do it for me.

Easy to skip to the conclusion page and see what the outcome is.

And to the OP who said " What does wine have to do with audio transparency, nothing!" - I have found after very extensive personal investigation that sufficient wine may result in a very significant deterioration in the level of audio transparency perceived by the listener!  ;-)
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