Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews?

...I read reviews with a salt block and a strong chaser when I'm in the mood for a glowing review with an implied tinge of irony...

"...it's Really Good, but...."

...followed or preceded by all manner of commentary, whereas I'm looking for some basic specs and the what 'n how does it do what it does. Or not.

Drawn to pro gear, things not req'd to look 'pretty'

The technology has rose to a level that even 'mid-fi' has the numbers that we used to demand from the stratos-level stuff that req'd a 2nd mortgage or made the card whimper and the sig other get testy at best...

If she/he/? filed for a divorce/division and you Really disposed of your 'disposable income', you are/were at fault and stfu.....

Consider car ads.....even the ones that end up being citrus with wheels in the shop yet again get transposed in the ads 'n reviews as the mobile manse you can't ignore...irony be damned, along with your theoretical budget....

Personal pref ='s flexibility.....'how' I define that is mho.... ;)

@moonwatcher

"The United States could disappear from the face of the Earth and the temperature of the Earth wouldn't change by any scientifically significant amount".

Now that would be some experiment!

As a kid, the two magazines always available in the house were Gramophone and Autocar.  Gramophone concentrates on reviewing classical recordings, with some equipment reviews.  When new recordings are compared with the finest prior recordings, you can easily read between the lines.  They did not publish bad equipment reviews because they did not want to waste space on them!

I remember a series of tyre adverts in Autocar.  According to the ads, this new wonder tyre had almost double the tyre life, better braking, better roadholding, better handling and it also reduced fuel consumption!  Looked far too good to be true, but steel-belted radial tyres are now ubiquitous for cars.  The claims were true!

I've discovered that products that do not change much, don't get reviewed much.  Get a product right first-time and you will hear about it once in reviews, unless it turns up as a classic in retrospectives.

I use them to validate my purchasing decisions.

I read them but have no delusions regarding them.