What Hi-Fi, Kef Q-300 review...

[BigH]

It amazes me that every year there is the greatest new gear coming out that so much better than last years. So after not looking at hifi for 20 years its shocking that hardly anything has changed, hifi mags are all about promoting new hifi and and getting advertising to make money. No surprise there are so many 5 stars ratings.

 

[basshound]

Its WHF's job to make you spend money on new hifi gear. Thats why newer stuff is "better".

Spot on

 

[steve_1979]

I buy the printed magazine occasionally but I'm too much of a cheapskate to get it every month. It's a toss up between buying a magazine or buying half a dozen secondhand CD's then the music usually wins.

Was just half-joking.

What was the other half?

(just kidding) 😉

 

[matt49]

It amazes me that every year there is the greatest new gear coming out that so much better than last years. So after not looking at hifi for 20 years its shocking that hardly anything has changed, hifi mags are all about promoting new hifi and and getting advertising to make money. No surprise there are so many 5 stars ratings.

I'd suggest not treating the star ratings as absolute values, but as relative ones. I understand and sympathize with your view that hi-fi magazines are bound into the production cycles of their advertisers. But it still seems to me useful to read the comparisons between different manufacturers (which is why round-up reviews such as the recent DAC round-up are interesting) ... unless of course you think hi-fi magazines give preferential treatment to the companies that advertise in them.

Matt

 

[Al ears]

It amazes me that every year there is the greatest new gear coming out that so much better than last years. So after not looking at hifi for 20 years its shocking that hardly anything has changed, hifi mags are all about promoting new hifi and and getting advertising to make money. No surprise there are so many 5 stars ratings.

I'd suggest not treating the star ratings as absolute values, but as relative ones. I understand and sympathize with your view that hi-fi magazines are bound into the production cycles of their advertisers. But it still seems to me useful to read the comparisons between different manufacturers (which is why round-up reviews such as the recent DAC round-up are interesting) ... unless of course you think hi-fi magazines give preferential treatment to the companies that advertise in them.

Matt

unless of course you think hi-fi magazines give preferential treatment to the companies that advertise in them.

Now they wouldn't be silly enough to do that .... would they? 🙂

I guess it all depends on what they actually get given to review in the first place.