I read this review about reviewers

Reality is not something that can be explained only by human science in his actual state....If you think so, you dont know what reality is.... Think again.... :)

And by the way evolution and Darwinian evolution theory are not exactly the same thing...Goethe for example was an evolutionist before Darwin ....His discovery of the intermaxillary bone convinced him that apes and human has a common unknown ancestor.... His research in plant biology and morphology gives him a theory of evolution in plants changes also....His view of evolution are not Darwinian but they were very deep....

Reality complexities are not exorcised by argument like: a stone falling is a fact and gravitation theory explain it...Fact and theory are 2 sides of the same coin....Reality is a coin with only one side....

Accusing Darwin to be racist has not much sense in the era in which he lived where most people were...Asking why racism exist at these times makes more sense....But answering that implicate the history of human consciousness....

Humans are apes, the ignorance here is astounding.

We are not apes, it is a choice to be one or not at our level of existence.... And anyway all living creatures are conscious....Then somewhere are ultimately equals....

Ignorance is not bigger here than anywhere for someone who read books and is unable to read most newspapers ...

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djones, you make a good argument (example) that man indeed evolved from apes.

This affirmation is already a simplistic deformation of the evolution concept, in a bad interpretation and a reductionist one of the Darwinian theory....

Man does not evolved from apes....Apes like we know them now did not exist at all a million year ago or more....A million year ago "something" which was neither modern human nor apes like we know them now separate itself in 2 different evolutionary current : human and apes....

The "fact" that human comes from apes was the newspaper "truth" version of Darwinian theory against Bible fundamentalist....And this is absolutely not a fact in reality and not even in Darwinian theory....

Reality dont care about newspapers....People do....

Quite a few decades ago, when I worked at a high-end dealer in DC, I met a guy who wrote reviews for a few of the popular rags of the day.  He told me that, if you tended to write positive reviews, a manufacturer would ship a product to you for evaluation and instead of returning the reviewed item to the manufacturer, they would offer to sell it to the reviewer at a huge discount.  The reviewer would then be free to sell the unit and reap whatever profits they could, further adding to their compensation.  He told me that he once reviewed a speaker from a major manufacturer and they offered to charge him 20% of retail, instead of returning them...a quick couple of hundred bucks more for him!

The problem with reviewers is that they make our choices inevitably oriented in some direction...

This direction is almost the same for almost all reviewers....What is the best new component on the market?

But what is important in Audio is not the choice of an electronic component at the end, there is plenty of good electronic components to choose first in this sea of products, but the most important at the end is the way we will embed the relatively good component we already have bought.... How to gives a way, how to make possible, and how to free his optimal S.Q. ?

But all reviewers guides our thinking process "nolens volens" in the urgent need to an upgrade not toward a rightful embedding of what we already own...

Then being paid or not, they are not neutral by the very requirements of their activity or profession....And for most Audio is synonymous with "generic" electronic design, not with the "specific" and necessary complex embeddings... But audio hobby is the art of  the improved listenings, not the art of buying a new " something" that will solve all audio problems out of the box....



«Man does not come from apes, and listening does not evolve from engineering, it is the reverse»-Groucho Marx

“Humans are apes, the ignorance here is astounding.”
Flat earthers felt the same way....as did those who believed the earth the center of the universe. Science evolves. Fact evolves. Some people don’t ;-)

Imo Abiogenesis and "embeddings" are two intellectually appealing schemes that go nowhere, in the first case literally, and the second, practically.  :)