William Sommerwerck wrote:
William Sommerwerck said:

Under JA, the magazine gradually moved in the direction
of "if it
sounds good, it is good". Any pretense to honoring the
original
meaning of "high fidelity" has been lost. Stereophile
has no
"objective" standards; it exists primarily to justify
whatever
purchase a particular reader wishes to make.

You might think it odd, but that's exactly how Normal
people make
their choices. If you value "realistic" sound, do you
need some
reviewer to tell you whether a system delivers it? That
judgment is
as subjective as "too much bass" or "great imaging".

I don't find it odd at all. Like most businesses,
Stereophile tries to
appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Some common denominators can be so low as to be useless.