Russell.Williams

I'm worried that it seems that almost everything I've reviewed gets recommended one way or another and I feel that I should throw some light on this.

I tried to illuminate the point (in an earlier blog post) that whilst not all speakers may to be my taste, that doesn't make them bad speakers. They're simply a speaker with a balance of strengths contrary to those I want and I hope I am illustrating those strengths for people that lean in that direction.

By way of an...

Once you take up the baton of a reviewer, then you tend to have to review products in isolation because that is what reviewing demands - Focusing on the product in question and sidestepping the inevitable forum demands of what's better, what's best.

The art of reviewing (as I quickly discovered once I thought about it and even then I'm not sure whether I hit the mark or not) is in having a neutral benchmark, even if it's not what you necessarily like and then commenting upon the strengths...

Having previously written about the superiority of one good sub as opposed to two inferior examples at half the price, I now find myself the proud owner of two identical subs. This isn't quite the blatant hypocrisy it may seem as it is more a result of practical considerations. I couldn't really justify a single 200L box in my room at any price nor find an acceptable form factor that would agree with the wife, but a pair of 115L jobs disguised as tables disappear quite nicely, thankyouverymuch....

....could I ask that you post the query on the open forum and if you want me to respond, PM me with a link to the topic and I'll take a look.

I'm being bold and offering to speak on behalf of all of the members who have a large amount of inbox traffic - more than 10 one day last week.

I'm not about to come over all Ringo Star or anything, but the point of a forum is for questions to be asked in public so the answers can be for the benefit of all. The problems PMs create...

I've decided to post a little background in my blog as to how I ended up with a home demo of most of the XTZ range, thus saving anyone reading the reviews from a windy description of my personal AV journey.

Unlike a professional reviewer, I am not inundated with gear to review on a minute by minute basis, so it may help to understand what I am chasing from my system. Everybody has their own idea of what their system should offer, but I feel it only fair that my comments and preferences...