Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet

Reviews become important because there a very few places now to go and listen to components! That’s a big problem.

so our society has identified reviewers as being necessary and significant!

why?

ans- I have no idea especially since the reviewers have zero knowledge of psychoacoustics, nor how the human hearing system functions.

I often wonder who writes the reviews ? The composition of the reviews of gear is laughable!

What is laughable, if it weren’t so ridiculous, is a comment like the one above The comment above is the kind of commentary that makes this topic often pointless and not a little ridiculous. I have no great love for audio reviewers, but to so brutally criticize all reviewers and to suggest that they are all a bunch of idiots is absurd. I have read enough excellent reviews over the years from some very knowledgeable and insightful reviewers to know that the author of that commentary doesn’t know what he is talking about. Of course, some other reviews were worthless. So what?

Gives further credence to my contention that many “audiophiles” are wannabe reviewers themselves and some are resentful of not being able to afford the gear. Ironically, it is often those who clamor for the “what sound is right is strictly subjective” approach to the hobby that have the most disdain for reviewers.

@frogman spot on. So many here want to criticize a reviewer for trying a tweak or SR product and then also criticize them on the opposite side of the review. This whole non-start ideology is not productive. 

And the reviewers seem to know a whole lot more than the 95% of us on here or there would be a whole lot more reviewers to slander and demean.  I'm not a fan of most reviewers and the flowery language they use to convince people of the difference in products, but I appreciate them making an attempt to help push the hobby forward and to attempt to give insight into new products that most of us are after. 

It will be interesting to see how he fits in at the absolute sound. They have developed such an uptight DNA over the years, and that’s just not him. He is much more irreverent than any of them. I know that he can be contradictory and has annoying faults like we all do, but I like him. I always read his column, and I don’t even own a turntable.

Dear @j-wall  : One way or the other several of us at the begening or at the middle of our audio life learned positive information about analog and it's tru too that over time ( at least me. ) I learned what not to do in analog and not because what MF said in his reviews but because what he did not says.

I don't read it any more but something important is that he makes his works showing the analog news and this is fine with me.

@daveyf  he has a lot of fans but almost gentlemans that started to know about analog no more than 10-15 years and they started not because MF but because audio analog forums as Agon.

Yes, he could be " arrogant " or rude as some of you posted but I have to say that he had a very hard time with discussion with me in Analog Planet and he never  close my posts or banned of his site.

Some of those discussion that almost all were against his statements or around some very low knowledge levels by his self in critical analog subject, these some of those discussions: tonearm/cartridge alignments, SAT tonearm, new Technics TT and tonearm set up, Wilson Audio Center Stage and others.

Yes he was rude with me but at the end he took in count that he was not so rigth as he was thinking and I can tell that he learned and as me never give up.

"" he has had an immense impact on the resurgence of vinyl after the digital onslaught in the late 80's ""

I think that " resurgence " of vinyl can be discussed because almost no one ( artists and record producers/manufacturers. ) from the 80's till today  makes LP recordings with new material or new artist in the industry.

All what we get on vinyl are 7-8 re-issues of the same old recordings and this is not resurgwence but only busine$$ that with or with out MF Acoustic Sounds, Elusive Music, Music Direct and other LP sources will do anyway. That's their way of life not because MF.

As I said I learned all the analog basics mainly for him, not any more and I'm not against him even I borrowed to him my Allaerts MC2 Gold cartridge that he reviewed.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R.