Sylverant
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Mike's journal on HD700 seems to fit in with his very open bias towards dark, smoother sounding headphones. His colorful words do help to make the entry more interesting to read but take from his legitimacy. Even so, he does fully explain where he finds the HD800 to be technically better than the HD700; as well as why he personally likes the HD700 more.
Rather than a review, this really is a journal entry more so, and he admits very openly in this article that its all about his opinion. It doesn't seem like Mike tried to write an actual review here. It's fine that he is honest, but this brings up coq de combat's point about whether or not it is acceptable for reviews to be openly, outlandishly biased, just because the reviewer is being honest about the fact.
I prefer these reviews to all the silly shill reviews the site normally gets hit with (all the one line "product announcements" in the Recent Reviews section cough cough), since at least these detailed reviews have some shred of truth to them, but in an ideal world it would be nice if the reviews around here could be more free of bias.
Better in all possible ways, but not as good. Okay.
Mike's journal on HD700 seems to fit in with his very open bias towards dark, smoother sounding headphones. His colorful words do help to make the entry more interesting to read but take from his legitimacy. Even so, he does fully explain where he finds the HD800 to be technically better than the HD700; as well as why he personally likes the HD700 more.
Rather than a review, this really is a journal entry more so, and he admits very openly in this article that its all about his opinion. It doesn't seem like Mike tried to write an actual review here. It's fine that he is honest, but this brings up coq de combat's point about whether or not it is acceptable for reviews to be openly, outlandishly biased, just because the reviewer is being honest about the fact.
I prefer these reviews to all the silly shill reviews the site normally gets hit with (all the one line "product announcements" in the Recent Reviews section cough cough), since at least these detailed reviews have some shred of truth to them, but in an ideal world it would be nice if the reviews around here could be more free of bias.