I think it should be mandatory that each reviewer expand on their listening room so we get an understanding of what they have to play with. For example, the last issue showed Robert Deutsch's room and frankly, I will just skip every review of his in the future because the room sucks so bad. I remember him complaining about a speaker that sounded thin in a review a while back and he stated that he had wood floors. DUH! His seating is up against the back wall (bad), his speakers are close to the front walls, and the wood floors! If you are going to be a reviewer, you should have at least a good room (probably a great room) to listen in.
Years ago, HiFI+ had a section of all of their reviewers rooms and some of them had schematics on actual room dimensions, dimensions where each object was placed, power source, etc...
My bedroom system has a better chance of sounding better with less quality gear than Robert's with expensive gear.
I think it should be mandatory that each reviewer expand on their listening room so we get an understanding of what they have to play with. For example, the last issue showed Robert Deutsch's room and frankly, I will just skip every review of his in the future because the room sucks so bad. I remember him complaining about a speaker that sounded thin in a review a while back and he stated that he had wood floors. DUH! His seating is up against the back wall (bad), his speakers are close to the front walls, and the wood floors! If you are going to be a reviewer, you should have at least a good room (probably a great room) to listen in.
Years ago, HiFI+ had a section of all of their reviewers rooms and some of them had schematics on actual room dimensions, dimensions where each object was placed, power source, etc...
My bedroom system has a better chance of sounding better with less quality gear than Robert's with expensive gear.