Sterophile's not so nice review of Bryston

a review is dependent upon the rest of the chain. thus, a reviewer can affect the outcome by selecting the rest of the components to create a favorable or unfavorable result.

there is nothing wrong with saying that given a reviewer's reference compoents, he/she heard such and such./ with other components a different outcome would ensue.

Mr T, your comments are right on, however, I find it unfortunate when I read where a reviewer pans or praises something based on hearing it through a system that is in some way suboptimal for the piece being reviewed. In Stereophile, at least you get measurements that JA tries to correlate with the reviewer's impressions.

Yes , guilty , I do rely on reveiws as a starting point . AT my age you can only tote home so many two three hundred pound pairs of speakers . When you read many reveiws about a product and they mostly comply , from reviewers you have read for many years , you can narrow down the field . And to be honest , I can't recall being lead down the wrong path doing things this way . Besides I'm quite satisfied with the speakers we have in are main residence , they won't me going anywhere soon . I heard Jenny Lewis's Acid Tongue is avalible on LP . Happy listing .