Honesty of the Reviewers

Good points Paulwp, but math professors must get paid better in your country than mine if they can afford mortgages.

Audiophiles are generally no fools and mostly educated. So a truly dishonest reviewer or magazine would soon be drummed out of the corps, not taken seriously and sooner or later be out of business.

Well, I'm not sure that "audiophiles are generally no fools." Do you have any idea how hard it is to sell something though really really good is not listed among Stereophile's recommended components. Or how many sales are made immediately upon a rave review to people who have never heard what they're buying? Let's, please, not get into the prices paid for designer cables (I'm NOT a wires is wires troll, but know that the margins are really big).

Red, you're probably right about the salary. They do get good salaries, but the income from their reviews or editing or whatever helps.

Paul, Ka probably had people like you and me in mind (-;

Believe nothing you read and only half of what you hear.. Take it all with a grain of salt and you should be ok...