Today I visited the AVS showroom website of Peter Breuninger. I had not done so for quite a while and I must confess that what I experienced greatly puzzled me (to say the least).
Firstly I would like to say that I really like/admire Peter's idea of reviewing components and giving us show reports with the help of videos that can be viewed on the internet and respect the time and effort he puts into his website. Pictures and sound (however mediocre the sound quality might be) trough videos/the internet gives you in my view a (much) better picture about the performance of audio components than words that are published in audio magazines.
That said I viewed a few videos, inter alia from the Axpona 2017 audio show and the Audio Note UK set up at his home, that amazed me. If I concentrate on the latter my question is: why on earth does a reviewer wants to state that a certain component is the best in the world? And not only once but several times! And while doing so he included two turntables - components that were not reviewed at all and were therefore not part of this video/review - that were 'rewarded' with the qualification 'best in the world' as well.
While talking about the Audio Note UK set up Peter Breuninger made several comments (such as "audio God") that were so over the top that they (even) embarrased the founder and big chief of Audio Note UK!
So I am wondering if some reviewers are so out of touch with reality that they should be advised (ideally by someone the reviewer (greatly) respects) to behave/review in a different way in order to protect such a person against himself? I am asking because in my view this kind of rather strange behavior of audio reviewers will (in the long run) damage the credibility of our hobby.
Or am I wrong of this and maybe need protection myself?
Firstly I would like to say that I really like/admire Peter's idea of reviewing components and giving us show reports with the help of videos that can be viewed on the internet and respect the time and effort he puts into his website. Pictures and sound (however mediocre the sound quality might be) trough videos/the internet gives you in my view a (much) better picture about the performance of audio components than words that are published in audio magazines.
That said I viewed a few videos, inter alia from the Axpona 2017 audio show and the Audio Note UK set up at his home, that amazed me. If I concentrate on the latter my question is: why on earth does a reviewer wants to state that a certain component is the best in the world? And not only once but several times! And while doing so he included two turntables - components that were not reviewed at all and were therefore not part of this video/review - that were 'rewarded' with the qualification 'best in the world' as well.
While talking about the Audio Note UK set up Peter Breuninger made several comments (such as "audio God") that were so over the top that they (even) embarrased the founder and big chief of Audio Note UK!
So I am wondering if some reviewers are so out of touch with reality that they should be advised (ideally by someone the reviewer (greatly) respects) to behave/review in a different way in order to protect such a person against himself? I am asking because in my view this kind of rather strange behavior of audio reviewers will (in the long run) damage the credibility of our hobby.
Or am I wrong of this and maybe need protection myself?
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