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Who shouldn't be trusted?

Steve Guttenberg @ CNET
- 94 (11.6%)
Mike Mercer
- 91 (11.2%)
Mike Fremer @ Stereophile
- 32 (3.9%)
Headphonia.com
- 66 (8.1%)
What Hi-Fi?
- 58 (7.2%)
24bit / Michael Piskor @ Headfonics.com
- 38 (4.7%)
John Grandberg / Project86 @ Head-Fi.com
- 28 (3.5%)
hifiguy528 @ Head-Fi.com
- 64 (7.9%)
Macedonian Hero @ Head -Fi.com
- 48 (5.9%)
Srajan Ebaen @ SixMoons.com
- 72 (8.9%)
Skylab @ Head-Fi.com
- 31 (3.8%)
Chris Connaker @ ComputerAudiophile.com
- 30 (3.7%)
Jude Mansilla @Head-Fi.com
- 116 (14.3%)
Michael Lavorgna (late add - redo vote if you want to add)
- 24 (3%)
TAS / Robert Harley (late add - redo vote if you want to add)
- 19 (2.3%)

Total Members Voted: 162

Voting closes: March 28, 2018, 05:02:01 PM


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Golmang

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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2015, 08:41:47 AM »

MIKE MERCER

Everything he reviews is damn good, awesome and has characteristic x, y and z. No matter the headphone or the chain. Everything's great. And then you see people literally begging for his impressions, refreshing, spamming HF threads and waiting in anticipation of his "opinion". This man will never run out of gear.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2015, 08:46:54 AM »

Once a rep of Audioquest told me "if you want to know the goodness of our cables, subscribe to WHF and read a bit more. you need to knoe more about cable science."

Geez...
Hahahaha! You made my day.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #22 on: July 03, 2015, 08:50:17 AM »

I mean, Mercer loved the Audeze EL-8?    :vomit:

Macedonian Hero loved it as well... See his headphone.guru review.   popcorn


I'm not familiar with all reviewers you listed guys... the only one I read carefully because I trust his honesty is Tyll. Even if our tastes mostly differ. I trust him because I heard a lot of gear he reviewed and always thought was he told us was almost right.  I sometimes disagreed with him but I can' understand why because I always can understand wheere he comes from. Not to mention his measurements. 


Generaly speaking , once I heard the Hugo for Myself and compared to what most people wrote about that Joke.. i lost confidence in almost everyone.  Now with he HE1K I 'm losing confidence in even more people.  facepalm 

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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2015, 09:20:59 AM »

once I heard the Hugo for Myself and compared to what most people wrote about that Joke.. i lost confidence in almost everyone.

So true^
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2015, 09:57:59 AM »

Speaking of hifiguy528...

Uses a ultra high end USD$930+ Audioquest Diamond USB Cable on an entry level(according to him) USD$1499 DAC. (USD$2429+ in total)

Who the hell does that? Why not just spend $2429 into higher grade usb/dac amp?

But he wouldn't be legitimate if he used a generic USB cable...
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2015, 01:53:02 PM »

The one headphone reviewer I read when not familiar with a headphone is CNET's David Carnoy.  I think he is fairly accurate and his reviews are refreshingly short.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #26 on: July 03, 2015, 02:03:12 PM »

I like Fremer.  Emailed him directly once for some gear advice and he was quite personable and up front in his suggestions.  I also think he does a huge service to his readers by posting audio samples from the stuff under review, especially cartridges which are pretty much impossible to home demo.  Sure, it's not the same as hearing it in person but generally speaking the core sonic values of whatever is under review will be present in the sample.

He does go a bit over the top on discussion boards (mostly disqus stuff on audio/vinyl related stuff) though.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #27 on: July 03, 2015, 03:37:47 PM »

Srajan Ebaen - seems to use words from the English language in such a way that actually prevents them from making any sense. Just thousands upon thousands of words all the while saying dick-all. Great of you're constipated and need something while on the toilwt, i guess. To my mind, he's like an anti-purr1n or something.

And the guy Tyll. Just terrible. He measures headphones! Who does that? Just Mercer it, dance around and sing "everything is awesome!" like in the Lego movie and you'll be fine. (Just shitting with you, i value tyll's opinions highly and enjoy his writing and youtube videos a great deal.)
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #28 on: July 03, 2015, 04:18:19 PM »


I mean, Mercer loved the Audeze EL-8?    :vomit:




Mercer was singing praises about both EL-8 units. Claiming they were amazing units, sound so close to the upper range Audeze products, etc. etc. Full pages of total hype for weeks.

When the units shipped he got called out by like 12 users, asking why he didn't talk about any of the problems and he didn't respond.

So to add some of the reviewers I just ignore

1. headfonia - Sometimes people quote headfonia as a source (or reference point). I usually only respond with "No one takes headfonia seriously"

2. Mercer - I'm sure he really loves and headphones and gets excited, but if the review is 100% you haven't listened critically

3. hifiguy528 - Purchased 1 pair of headphones based on his review. Was pretty disappointed at how middle of the road it sounded. Few weeks later he posted a video of his cable inventory. If only I had known. He had some cable that took a AA alkaline battery, and had a LED indicator light and did some voodoo magic. He claimed the cable was good quality, because it had such good battery life.

4. Sky....

5. Macedonianhero - Seems to be all over the place but with less hype. Distinctly remember him calling the Beyer T1 "neutral". --Nope, nope





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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #29 on: July 03, 2015, 04:35:33 PM »

Chris Connaker of Computer Audiophile has gone WAY down hill. Back when he started his reviews were fairly honest, and pretty useful. All of that is gone. Now everything sounds great. Everything is great. Every time he posts a new review, there's always several commenters asking "Hey Chris, how does this compare to X product you reviewed last week?" and it's always crickets. He absolutely refuses to compare anything to anything else. Not even to help steer people to one product or the other based on what their tastes might be, as opposed to declaring one product "better" than the other. Just complete silence.

This guy on the other hand, I f-ing love this guy. I wish he would review way more stuff than he does.

http://noaudiophile.com/Zu/
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