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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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Deep Funk

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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #80 on: July 05, 2015, 12:03:10 PM »
Quote from: madaboutaudio on July 05, 2015, 11:29:42 AM
I am guessing he is using Geek pulse or ODAC/O2 and other DAP for reviewing the headphones(he didn't list the gear in his chain).

I feel that if he had access to even higher end gear, his review would have given us even more information about the headphone's full potential that is not limited/weakened/affected by his mid level gear, if the headphone he is reviewing is a very capable one.


Take for example, in this review, Dan used his higher grade MSB Analog Dac and his Audio-gd Master9, but he also paired the headphone to mid-tier dacs like the oppo HA-1

http://headmania.org/2015/06/28/oppo-pm-2-headphones-review/

TLDR: More equipment grade allows the reviewer to access the gear's performance better.

Agreed. Regarding his current content and "reviews" my view is simple. His platform is called "Lachnan likes a thing" and the verb "likes" literally applies to his content. No pretensions, an informative opinion from a personal experience.

Lachlan "likes" and informs or dislikes and informs. I appreciate what he does.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #81 on: July 05, 2015, 12:56:34 PM »
What about Frank I, Headphone Guru?
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #82 on: July 05, 2015, 01:09:36 PM »
Quote from: lmswjm on July 05, 2015, 12:56:34 PM
What about Frank I, Headphone Guru?


 walk the plank2 


Nothing more to add.


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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #83 on: July 05, 2015, 05:05:18 PM »
Quote from: Deep Funk on July 05, 2015, 12:03:10 PM
Lachlan "likes" and informs or dislikes and informs. I appreciate what he does.

Agreed, I hadn't watched his reviews until now and found his impressions accurate and devoid of hype or overly passionate stuff. Sometimes you just need the basics covered to decide whether or not a piece of gear is worth a try.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #84 on: July 05, 2015, 06:01:18 PM »
What did people think of David Mahler's "Battle of the Flagships" write-up?
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #85 on: July 05, 2015, 06:09:35 PM »
Quote from: lmader on July 05, 2015, 06:01:18 PM
What did people think of David Mahler's "Battle of the Flagships" write-up?
A load of work and pretty impressive effort, imo.
Also not too scheiBe upstream gear.
The HP-s that i have heard from his list match my thoughts pretty well with some misses.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #86 on: July 05, 2015, 06:11:02 PM »
Quote from: lmader on July 05, 2015, 06:01:18 PM
What did people think of David Mahler's "Battle of the Flagships" write-up?

I still read it very often and still find it's a great write up although I think this guy was crazy.   Heard/owned a bunch of the headphones he reviewed and I often correlate what he wrote with my own impressions. I sometimes disagree though ( HE400 , T1 for example) .  Agree or not that's not shitty blablablabla imo.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #87 on: July 06, 2015, 01:45:16 AM »
I like the Mahler piece more for the history of the headphones than for the impressions. I think a lot of people read it and forget about the source: It's a warm-leaning $40,000 DAC (w transport) and about $2500 worth of interconnects. That, and his choice of amps is strange. I don't know anyone else who has given impressions on the Manley 300B preamp (though I bet it sounds quite nice), the Millett/TTVJ 307A amp/Pinnacle (again, I bet it sounds quite nice, but @ $10,000, I'm not about to find out anytime soon) and he's been one of the only people I've seen give praise to the Phonitor.

That said, people should learn from him and openly prepare to discuss the shortcomings of the gear they review. At no point did I feel like he was shilling for anyone (although I had a slight suspicion on the Ultrasone stuff...he was way too nice to the Edition 10).
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #88 on: July 06, 2015, 02:50:55 AM »
Mahler's giant review is valuable as a comparison piece in its entirety. The individual components should not be taken as absolutes on their own.
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Re: Reviewing the audiophile reviewers
« Reply #89 on: July 06, 2015, 02:59:09 AM »
hello,

Mr. Mahler's survey just makes me sad that i am poor.  :'(
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