Award Or Brickbat?

[icehockeyboy]

Just prompted to bring this up as I recently saw three seperate evaluations of the Quad Classic 11L.

It seems that Hifi News and Hifi World rate them very highly, and yet What? Hifi? think less of them.

I pity the fool who makes his mind up based on magazine reviews! ( In Mr T voice please! :lol: )

Joking aside, I just wonder how magazines can have widely differing opinions of one product........ :scratch:

[chelsea]

I'am guessing different souces different amps and different listening rooms.

Have been told one of the mags used to use a room so dead that it would make the brightest hi fi sound ok.iirc.

At best the mags should only be a rough guide and not gospel.

Problem is with the ever decreasing hi fi shops demos will become a thing of the past and people will have to buy blind.
That is where bake offs come in very handy.

[Macca]

I used to have some Wharfedale CRS3 - cheap little standmount. I liked them, so did everyone who heard them. I didn't see any reviews until long after I sold them on. What Hi-Fi slated them, Hi Fi Choice (blindfold test) liked them. So much opinion is dependant on room, equipment and expectation, magazine reviews are no exception to this.

[Wakefield Turntables]

You should trust YOUR ears rather than a reviwers. ;)

[icehockeyboy]

You should trust YOUR ears rather than a reviwers. ;)

Ab so flippin lutely!

If everyone went on WTF's ratings, we would all have Cyrus cdp's and amps and Monitor Audio speakers! :eyebrows:

[Reid Malenfant]

So much opinion is dependant on room, equipment and expectation, magazine reviews are no exception to this.
Not forgetting the reviewer, who may well have his own take on things :rolleyes: :eyebrows:

[Macca]

Ab so flippin lutely!

If everyone went on WTF's ratings, we would all have Cyrus cdp's and amps and Monitor Audio speakers! :eyebrows:

Hmm Cyrus/MA - it's probably better than what I've got! Maybe I should have just read the 1994 WTF awards issue instead of cocking about for almost 20 years...(nah just kidding)

[Spectral Morn]

I'am guessing different souces different amps and different listening rooms.

Have been told one of the mags used to use a room so dead that it would make the brightest hi fi sound ok.iirc.

At best the mags should only be a rough guide and not gospel.

Problem is with the ever decreasing hi fi shops demos will become a thing of the past and people will have to buy blind.
That is where bake offs come in very handy.

Yes What HiFi.


Regards D S D L

[Jonboy]

You should trust YOUR ears rather than a reviwers. ;)


it's the only thing that counts, your's not theirs