“Faithful to the recording”


I despise when reviewers use those words in describing a piece of equipment unless they were, quite literally, at the recording.  Once those words are used, I pretty much stop reading since IMO the reviewer is full of BS.

Your thoughts?

And what key word(s) or phrases cause you to stop reading?

 

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LOL!  There was a point in my career as a wanna-be-audiophile where that's what I was striving to hear:  "faithful to the recording."  But who knows what that even means?  Often, different sections of the final mix are recorded at different places and different times, and then it's all mixed and mastered. . . .

ORGANIC - This was first used AFAIK to describe Meridian's fantastic new line up circa 1988?

It's been massively abused since then. Meridian did actually produce a wonderful "organic" sound.

And then there are these words from some audiophile junkie "Hearing what the artist(s) intended..."  😁