Absolute Sound's "Reviews"

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.

I subscribed for years- it was nice to have around for exposure to really nice gear. The more I learned from reading about the experience of actual users (various forums) the more I began to see through the mags reviews and commentary.

One day while reading the latest issue I came across an article called “You complete Me”. It was a review of an electrical outlet with magical audio properties. The verbiage used to describe the audible improvements was unbelievable and made me realize that if these writers think that I’m that stupid I shouldn’t be supporting them. I haven’t purchased (or read) an issue since.