Originally posted by michaelab
Yes we can, absolutely.
I'm finding it hard to believe that anyone here took the "sofa" statement at all literally. Isn't it obvious that it's just a figure of speech for saying "Louise? She was amazed!".
FFS how many times have people here talked about jaws hitting the floor and falling off their chair? It's totally absurd to use that figure of speech as any indication of RG's review accuracy
If all hifi reviewers wrote their reviews as if they were science papers in a journal they would extremely dull indeed.
Michael.
I think it would be good if just one magazine would do at least one proper double blind test on 'controversial' things like cables, mains etc. Magazines have the time and ability to do such things.
Who knows? They might even 'pass' the test and silence some of the cable critics. But if they 'failed' then I think the readers would be rightly angered.
The Louise 'episode' would need further investigation. It could be a simple as Roy spends so much on hi-fi that he can only afford a very rickety and precarius sofa and that in the Gregory household falling off the sofa is not an infrequent occurrence.