“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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@whart +10.  I suspect that if you just posed that synopsis of the original from memory, I'd not be shocked in the brevity of it. 👍😎

I very much enjoyed the late Art Dudley's Sterophile Columns. However, I could never get along with his use of the terms "touch" and "force" - for example (re his Altec Valencia's) "More important, they play music with such a believable sense of touch and force that they've transformed the manner in which I approach almost every recording I've played through them."

@asvjerry 

I find your remarks very sensible. 

Even if one could afford chasing SOTA, that pursuit is not necessarily a prescription for satisfaction. As someone with a high capacity for perfectionism/obsessiveness, I'm grateful that my finances preclude my embarking upon such a grail quest!  

 

Name someone in the audio community that think like me that the most important factor of satisfaction is not upgrading but acoustic...I want to read him...I never read one or discover one, save some acousticians.......

It is a call for help from myself to everyone...

Thanks in advance...