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Simple Home Remedy #1
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:28:28 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote:
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 3:11:20 PM UTC-4, John H wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:50:06 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote: On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 2:11:08 PM UTC-4, John H wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:20:30 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote: I agree. Magazines like Car and Driver or Road and Track make for interesting reading at times, but you have to take their reviews with a grain of salt. Between them getting ringers from car companies to test, and the "not wanting to bite the hand that feeds you" syndrome, many of their test articles are just fluff pieces. If they have something bad to say about a car, it's usually very carefully worded so it almost doesn't sound negative. That they don't take ads is one thing I really like about CR. You should read a 'Trailer Life' (RV Magazine) once. They 'review' RVs, and in a two or three page spread there may be one 'unpositive' comment. Total bull**** reviews. While true, the thing I don't like about CR is that they are workman-like, mechanical reviews, at least with cars. R&T and C&D have "car guys" who can drive and report on handling nuances, road feel, etc. more reliably than CR, at least IMO. They just sugarcoat the problems. I used to get a kick out of Audiophile magazine. They were audio snobs who would trash anything they didn't like, and I think sometimes that included decent gear that didn't cost enough to earn their respect.  We used to have a high-end audiophile shop in Springfield Mall, just down the road. One day I took the Telarc 1812 overture album in and asked them to play it on their several-thousand dollar turntable and cartridge combination. Don't remember which turntable, but very, very expensive. The salesman said he couldn't do it. Said the record was improperly made and couldn't be played without the tone arm sliding across the album. When I told him my Dual 1019 with a Shure V-15 cartridge would play it just fine, he said I had to have the stylus pressure way too high. This was bull****, but it helped me realize that lots of money doesn't necessarily buy good sound. Of course, my ears wouldn't appreciate that sound now anyway, except for the cannons maybe! Yeah, that was BS. He probably just didn't want to play your album because he didn't know what shape it was in. But, money *does* buy good sound. A friend and I were in a high-end store listening to that very selection years ago. When the cannon fire got close a salesman grabbed the volume and turned it down. Didn't want to damage those high-end speakers! LOL! |
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