Hunter S Thompson changed journalism. He made it me centric. Unfortunately, the vast majority of journalism haS followed that narcissistic path without a fraction of his talent.
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.
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 thought Millercarbon's 5/2 post was a parody of the bad reviews the OP was describing. As such I thought it was quite good. But apparently he is serious about the NY Times and the decline of western civilization. Here's the Wikipedia page for The New York Time Manual of Style and Usage. It's basically an alternative to the Associate Press, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and the Washington Post who have their own style guides. Don't take audio reviews seriously, they are purely for entertainment purposes. |
My but it's funny how just about any topic can get peoples' dander up. Do you get paid for your work? So do reviewers, deal with it, they are not the Great Satan. This is what you get with capitalism, it's not so bad. Learn how to read critically, or go read 5 star Amazon reviews instead. Professional reviews never pan a product because they don't review a component that is crap. They return it and decline to review it, it's a professional courtesy. There was an antidote for lousy sounding products, it was called auditioning it for yourself at the local dealer. But we all drove them out of business by buying Chinese knock offs online, so now we're stuck with trying to return it if we don't like it. At least we saved a buck on that pirated speaker cable. |
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