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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?

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

I understand the measurements implicitly, it‘s just that one‘s own philosophy as to how far certain measurements correlate with subjective listening results will normally determine how ’full (or empty) of it‘one determines the reviewer to be. So this becomes a rather subjective process. Which is fine by me.

Or do do you believe in absolutes? In which case it is very easy to identify ’full of it’ reviewers (possibly even creating a ’fulness’ score for each reviewer) and by extrapolation disqualify their future reviews from garnering any credibility.

Or do do you believe in absolutes?

I would never buy an amp that measures like ****, and yet a reviewer says it sounds fantastic.
I need an amp to measure well for the purpose I intend to use it for, and if the reviewer say it sounds good driving similar speakers to mine as well that's a bonus.

Like I said

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   

"I need an amp to measure well for the purpose I intend to use it for..."

Amplifying?