What is missing here?

I would make a different point about the problem with the review.  I am not in the market for a low power amp or for $15,000 amp of any power.  The knowledge that this is a low power amp that costs $15,000 would very likely inform my decision about whether to read the review ... I shouldn't have to read to the end of a long review to find that out.  To make the point a little more sharply, suppose TAS were to publish a long and detailed amplifier review that ended with the sentence "Unfortunately, only 10 of these amplifiers were manufactured and they were all destroyed when the factory exploded."  Would't you feel sort of cheated that you had read an entire review of a non-existent product? 
[I guess this might be OK on April 1, but not in September.]

@billzame. Great points. In this particular review, there is actually no mention of the output power of this amp in the body of the piece. So, one could actually read the whole piece and not realize what that is!

@ billzame - hi there, I don’t mean to be contentious regarding your recent point, but I have something that might give you some room for thought - being new to the whole high end audio hifi hobby, I’ve poured over so many articles, reviews and everything audiogon has to offer, and I’ve discovered something interesting - I’ve never seen reviews as necessarily written for the sole purpose of one’s selling, or my search for, a particular product - I read everything I come across to learn more about details,; about concepts; about audible and inaudible differences; about power cords; about what certain reviewers specific preferences are for certain products I may not have listened to, in comparison to those that I have; and just about everything related to our hifi world, in order to understand the complex relationships between technology and the human ear. I may be mistaken, but I believe most audiophiles read for the sake of deeper knowledge too, and that the specific purpose of buying is not necessarily the most important. Imagine what might have been missed in the review if one merely focussed on the specifications of cost and power output that were already at the start of the review! And, even if specifications were all that were desired, I have been powering my 88db sensitive speakers with a 15wpc SET amp for the past six months to the most amazing sound - numbers that a hifi component exhibits as an isolated object doesn’t really tell any truly accurate story, because it will never be isolated in use, in being a part of a very specific set of complex relationships within any given system. I have found that the focus on specification numbers as an object of research is an unhealthy habit, as it might make me miss everything else more important about the profound and critical relationships that musical reproduction and listening is truly about. 
In friendship : ) - kevin

@kevn  Kevin, perhaps you could answer my question. If you read the review I alluded to in my OP, there is no mention in the body of the work that the amp in question puts out a maximum of 9watts/ch and at 10% distortion. Furthermore, there is no mention of what kind of speakers would seem to be mandatory if one is to consider this amp. Given that you state that the relationship between components is a very complex aspect ( which I concur with), I ask this:  if you had bought this amp and hooked it up to your 88db sensitive speakers, and the result was far from what you are expecting based on the review, what would your thoughts be?

Hey daveyf, thanks for your question - well, first off, I read to the very end of every review for information I might have missed, or that could tell me everything I might need to know about the equipment in question. And I would find the specifications or measurements at some point, which in this particular case, was in the specs section. And this alone would never have been sufficient for me, obviously. For an item of any cost, let alone this particularly higher priced piece, I would have proceeded to then uncover, through more reviews, friends, specialists and the like, every thing I could possibly find on it, in order to develop a good picture for myself regarding what I’d be actually buying. You see, any review is just written by another human being, more experienced or otherwise, but nonetheless as human and as imperfect as you and I are. And that’s all that any review is, another small piece of the huge jigsaw that a component is about, you see? To merely take any one single review as gospel, would be to dis-service to yourself, and place unfair judgement on another human being, who, even as a professional reviewer, might possibly not know even as much as you or me, regarding certain aspects of our audio world. But I will still read every single word written in critical appraisal, for everything else he or she might know more about, and the smallest clues that might help better my understanding of what the product does, or can do. Everyone told me my 15wpc SET would never work with my middling/low sensitivity speakers, but I had a hunch the solid state rectifiers would control the bass well enough, and indeed they did. There are simply too many ways to skin a cat, to shut anything down purely on account of specifications and measurements, and this is the reason why a single review, whether biased for or against the numbers, will never do : ) - I hope this all makes sense! 
In friendship - kevin