Absolute Sound's "Reviews"

Reviewers/authors all have their own style.  That makes it more difficult to determine the utility of many reviews across publications.  Having said that, if Mike Fremer actually likes something, it's probably pretty good-- maybe great.

Sometimes, lately it seems more often, that they put up these "thumbnail" or capsule summary lite-reviews on their website, like the Totem. When I googled the article I got a link to a longer version, and the URLs vary slightly. Weird that they make a longer one available for free (though I do subscribe to the e-version) but harder to get to.

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2022-golden-ear-totem-acoustic-element-fire-v2-loudspeaker/

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/totem-acoustic-element-fire-v2-loudspeaker/

If you Google, you can often find the longer version though some don’t seem to be full reviews:

If you don't like it, don't subscribe (or read).  Pretty simple.

They probably understood that people does not take seriously all these supposed reviewers, who always review with objectivity (lol), buying (lol), or borrowing the reviewed machine for a long time!!!!

Stereophile is a far better magazine.