Stereophile's 2021 products of the year

I recently finished reading Shiit Happened, by the founders of Shiit Audio, and can wholeheartedly recommend it as an insightful, often very funny, irreverent take on how to succeed in the audio business while trying (and working) really, really hard, owning your mistakes, and trying hard to treat the people who love music and way-better-than-average sound... Respectfully & well. Did it make me go to their website and think about maybe trying some of their gear, heck yes -- the desired effect, for sure.  But they genuinely seem allergic to snake oil and stuff that costs 6 or 14 much as it probably should. More power to 'em, i say.

Then why should we place faith in other Stereophile reviews?

You need to understand the measurements also, that way you can form a judgement if the reviewer is full of it or not.
If you don't understand the measurements as well your just p*****g into the wind.

Cheers George

Jason,Stoddard and (the aforementioned) Mike Moffat, co-founders of Schiit Audio (credit where due). And I promise -- nobody'sgiving me any free gear; I get myself poor just like the rest-a yuz!

mglik,

"He had developed pretty much the first functional CD player."

What do you mean by that? Wasn't it SONY/Philips colaboration with, I think, SONY being the first to show the prototype?