Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet

@j-wall , I'd bet your response would be entirely different had Mikey Fremer said something like that to you, face-to-face...

@mr_m you can speculate as much as you'd like. I work in sales with contractors face to face, daily. I don't think I'd be the guy who would be offered by Michael Fremer, sorry. 

A few years ago he stuck one of those ridiculous Synergistic Research HFT things on a tonearm for review, said he thought it worked great, and never mentioned it again. 

Reviews become important because there a very few places now to go and listen to components! That’s a big problem.

so our society has identified reviewers as being necessary and significant!

why?

ans- I have no idea especially since the reviewers have zero knowledge of psychoacoustics, nor how the human hearing system functions.

I often wonder who writes the reviews ? The composition of the reviews of gear is laughable!

What is laughable, if it weren’t so ridiculous, is a comment like the one above The comment above is the kind of commentary that makes this topic often pointless and not a little ridiculous. I have no great love for audio reviewers, but to so brutally criticize all reviewers and to suggest that they are all a bunch of idiots is absurd. I have read enough excellent reviews over the years from some very knowledgeable and insightful reviewers to know that the author of that commentary doesn’t know what he is talking about. Of course, some other reviews were worthless. So what?

Gives further credence to my contention that many “audiophiles” are wannabe reviewers themselves and some are resentful of not being able to afford the gear. Ironically, it is often those who clamor for the “what sound is right is strictly subjective” approach to the hobby that have the most disdain for reviewers.