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In Reply to: And this is why Consumer Reports does such a GREAT job... posted by Dave Pogue on March 19, 2007 at 04:56:16:
Consumer Reports may not test expensive equipment that interests you, but they do the best they can using measurements not subject to the usual audiophile expectation bias / pontificating with excitement over every new product!Measurements are not a precise method but they can separate above- average equipment from the below-average equipment.
For one example: Consumer Reports reported just how bad the overall frequency response and bass output/distortion of the NHT SuperZeroes was ... at the same time Sytereophile and others were praising these below-average speakers as if they were manna from heaven! (I have nothing against NHT, as I use NHT SuperOnes in my bedroom's background music system, but I know a poor speaker when I hear one!)
Consumer Reports tests are so much better than some high-end audiophile "reviewer's" absolutely worthless pontificating for three pages about some expensive wires ... that a comparison with Consumer Reports methodology would be pure comedy.
Consumer Reports should add blind speaker tests to their reviews but I feel they avoid lawsuits by making all their tests repeatable (a blind listening panel could have a different opinion each day they listened!) It's unfortunate how much our lives are affected by fear of lawsuits!
In most U.S advertising-supported audio magazines almost every component is described as above average and worth an audition = very little information given to help us evaluate the best sound per dollar (quite different from some British audio magazines supported more by dealer ads -- they actually give components bad reviews and low ratings ... yet they manage to stay in business!)
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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Follow Ups
- Consumer Reports has repeatable non-biased tests -- other magazines write 3 pages on wires with no audible differeences! - Richard BassNut Greene 07:28:19 03/19/07 (7)
- Consumer Reports is great until - markrohr 10:00:22 03/19/07 (5)
- Re: Consumer Reports is great until - TomLarson 13:00:52 03/19/07 (0)
- Agreed - Schu 12:29:37 03/19/07 (3)
- Exactly - Charles Hansen 18:52:01 03/19/07 (2)
- "For uprights, the best vacuum is an all-metal Royal (made in the USA)" - SF tech 12:40:58 03/22/07 (0)
- Or good and expensive with high profit and markup nt - TomLarson 12:26:32 03/20/07 (0)
- Uh-huh - Dave Pogue 07:34:00 03/19/07 (0)
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