Hi Spinaltap and George,

I have read your statements regarding WhatHifi. But I can not fully subscribe to them. The Exploer for example was highly praised by them. I do agree that a lot of their criteria are slightly non-technical. Instead of relying on some laboratory measuremts they evaluate on the basis of merely subjective impressions. On the other hand you must see that nowaday's products are so highly developed that a more technical evaluation on the basis of laboratory measurements would be rather pointless and boring. Of course I confirm that vocabularies like "more rhythm", "more musicality", "more fluidity" are more than just ambiguous.

What I appreciate with WhatHifi however is that not every new product is praised into the blue. When reading reports and reviews in other magazins (especially in Germany) I do get the impression that bad results are excluded from the beginning on. Each product is an evolutionarily huge step forward, even if they should just have changed the labelling sign's size on the front. In so far it is appreciable to see that there are magazins which do not seem to be the prolonged arm of sales departments.

Additionally I like the idea of comparing several equally priced products. A lot of reviews leave that out and regard the product in isolation, which is not useful for a consumer, who has to take a decision about what to buy.

Until now, I have not been able to discover a one sided perspective with WhatHifi. Maybe, they like Rega and Hugo a little bit more but I think all in all it is in limits....

Sascha