In his recent video appearances, Jude looks physically more frail(less body mass/muscle) than he was a few years ago?

The exhilaratin thrill of reviewing all them awesome, awesome gear must be taking its tolls.

Darko is far from the only one to give the Mytek DAC a "Super Plus Blue Moon Special" award. Almost all reviews I've seen of it have been extremely positive. Same for the PS DSD.

I just added my votes.  I made seven votes out of eight people whose reviews I have read.  I did not vote for any person/site I never read.  The "audiophile" reviewer who I have read and not either disliked or distrusted was Mike Fremer @ Stereophile because I remembered finding him very likable and honest and I felt some empathy when he said something like crackles on vinyl are no worse than people making noise during a live performance.  I don't bother with vinyl any more but I do love live music and I often find a really good live broadcast, warts and all, is much better than any studio CD of the same works, so I have a lot of time for the point of view or feeling that those kinds of imperfections are not really imperfections at all.

I don't think I've ever read more totally brainless, shameless drivel than that which issues from the pens of Michael Lavorgna and Robert Harley.  What Hi-FI is not quite in the same league because it appears to be written by advertising bots using a well worn set of stock phrases.  My impression of What Hi-Fi is that it will award "PRODUCT X of the YEAR! Evaar!" to absolutely anything so long as the distributors and associated retailers pay for commissions, freebies and most importantly sustained advertising campaigns.  It's so obviously corporate and driven only by revenue.  Imo Lavorgna+Harley vs What Hi-Fi is a bit like individual tart vs cathouse.  In either case use protection, or ideally  just avoid.

While this user is not technically an "audiophile reviewer," I feel that he/she does as much damage (if not more) of driving the hype train and FOTM reputation of head-fi: Nomax.  I never had much interaction with him before, but I've been seeing him pop up on lots of random threads with "insider information" and how every single new item he is hinting at will be the bee's knees (even if he hasn't even heard them yet, since they aren't even in production yet at the time of his hype).  I feel that this user symbolizes so much of what is wrong at head-fi right now.  Does anyone know who he is?  How does he even have so much insider information?  I thought he might be some PR goon who lacks the concept of subtlety, but he hypes pretty much any product regardless of brand: Abyss, Sennheiser, AKG, Pioneer, etc.  He's been recently hyping the Sennheiser 630VB, AKG K3003, AKG N90Q, Pioneer SE-Master-1, and last but not the least the recently announced Abyss Diana ($3000 open-back on-ear planars). 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/774015/the-first-real-high-end-hp-in-the-world

Are users like Nomax paid by companies to create hype at head-fi?  Thankfully he's not as "verbose" as 6moons, though his posts are still sometimes just as unintelligible.

Nomax is coming from the open-end-professional forum.
He claims to be active in the headphone scene since decades, going to meets to talk to developers and headphone freaks.
In Germany, there is the objective hifi-forum and the subjective open-end. Nomax just hypes everything he likes or rather he can listen to before others can do. He's never negative. He just wants so share the joy of the headphone hobby. Here's his own hype-thread, where he gets attacked a lot.
http://www.open-end-music.de/vb3/showthread.php?t=6634