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Just to add to Sylverants agreement:
This is what I tried to touch upon a bit earlier as well. I think it goes without saying, but someone with a big blog/website for reviewing headphones should try to choose their words very carefully and with more responsibility. Not everyone will be able to distinguish the positive reactions during the "honeymoon phase" with a headphone, from paragraphs written with more responsibility behind it. Some will take things literally, and not figuratively, and without knowing the complete sentiments about said headphone, they will start placing orders. This seems to me as a recurring phenomenon on head-fi though.. One person says that a certain headphone or IEM is clearly better than some other headphone, without mentioning why or what's so great about it or even that it's their subjective opinion after owning it for 5 hours - and the hype is born and a new 'cult' is created.
Exactly. And for those us of us that have been long enough to know, it's often a problem when you find new members with a post count greater than 1,000 already blindly throwing "absolutes" to people that don't know any better. Is it wise to derail such a thread in the interest of friendly criticism?