Can't stand any of 'em but Stereophile personally. 6moons is verbal diarrhoea of the worst sort and they do most reviews using equipment I don't consider hi fi , such as SET amps... waste of time.
No review should be paid for in any way shape or form and magazines and reviewers must be 100% impartial IMHO. In the case of on line reviews/magazines then one is not even paying a cover price and so I can't see how it's possible for them to be any more use than a chocolate fire guard... their income must be coming entirely from advertisers etc and so any and all reviews can be expected to be completely biased... with no doubt the company paying the most for a review getting the most "stars" or greatest recommendation... No names no pack drill but one of the sites mentioned in this thread tried to solicit a bribe from me in order to get a good review... I told them to shove it where the sun don't shine, as I would always do to anything underhand such as this. The review did not take place.
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