REVIEW DISCLAIMER
I review because I love doing so, it’s a great source of joy for me. No-one pays me for reviews, ever. I take it very seriously, as I know people rely on reviews before they shell out cash for their gear, just like I do myself. For that reason I only review things that interest me, things I would maybe buy for myself. That doesn’t mean my reviews are slanted or influenced, I pride myself on being very neutral and sharing my thoughts in a way that I hope will benefit the community. If I recommend something, it’s because I genuinely loved it, and I think you may too. Also, great gear excites me, and therefore my language can be a bit over the top, full of superlatives and the like- please excuse me. That’s just how I am.
- I start out with a very varied playlist of testing tracks to form my initial thoughts, and then spend several weeks/months with the review sample simply listening to whatever inspires me, like I normally would. I then come back to the testing tracks to solidify my impressions before sitting down to write the review. I also listen while I write, one of my favorite parts.
- I love all kinds of music, and to form an honest opinion for any piece of gear I think it absolutely necessary to test with lots of different kinds of music. If you’re taking a reviewer’s word about a piece of gear you want to spend your hard earned cash on, in my opinion, you absolutely should take into consideration how their musical tastes match or differ from your own.
TESTING PLAYLIST
Agnes Obel - Dorian
Allison Krauss - Let Me Touch You For Awhile
Animals As Leaders - Conflict Cartography
Animals As Leaders - Kascade
Animals As Leaders - Physical Education
Archie Pelago & Grenier - Navigator
Asgeir - Living Water
Asgeir - Snowblind
Avishai Cohen - Abie
Avishai Cohen - C#
Avishai Cohen - Nu Nu
Billie Eilish - Oxytocin
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
Deftones - Digital Bath
Dire Straits - Lady Writer
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Emancipator - Nevergreen
Eric Johnson - Soulful Terrain
Esperanza Spalding - Unconditional Love
Fat Freddy's Drop - Blackbird
Fink - Looking Too Closely
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Ghost Note - JB s Out! (Do It Babay)
GoGo Penguin - Soon Comes Night
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Gojira - New Found
Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit
Heilung - Svanrand
Hiatus Kaiyote - Shaolin Monk Motherfunk
Intervals - A Different Light
Jacob Collier - Feel
Jacob Collier - Moon River
Jeff Beck - Brush With the Blues
Joe Armon-Jones - Ode 2 Reverb
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Jordan Rakei - Clouds
Julian Lage - Nocturne
Kandace Springs - Devil May Care
Kandace Springs - Don't Need The Real Thing
Kandace Springs - Soul Eyes
Kryptic Minds - Brief Passing
Kryptic Minds - Can't Sleep
Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter - Black Crow
Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter - Boogie Down
Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks
Leprous - Silently Walking Alone
Leprous - Atonement
Leprous - Have You Ever
Lianne La Havas - Wonderful
Mathew Halsall - Canopy & Stars
Mark Littieri - Barreleye
Mark Littieri - Pulsar
Meshell Ndegeocello - Love Song 1
Meshell Ndegeocello - Trust
Meshuggah - Broken Cog
Meshuggah - New Millennium Cyanide Christ
Michael Landau - I’m Buzzed
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Moonchild - Too Much to Ask
Moonchild - Wise Women
Norah Jones - Don't Know Why
Nubya Garcia - Boundless Beings
Nubya Garcia - Stand With Each Other
Om Unit - Camo
Om Unit - Angles
Pat Metheney - Have You Heard
Pat Metheney - First Circle
Periphery - Wildfire
Plini - Electric Sunrise
Plini - Inhale
Polyphia - Chimera
Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
Robben Ford - The Champ
Robben Ford - Up The Line
Robert Glasper - Black Superhero
RY X - Your Love
Sevendust - Praise
Snarky Puppy - Bet
Snarky Puppy - Grown Folks
Snarky Puppy - Lingus
Snarky Puppy - Trinity
Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Terence Blanchard - Cosmic Warrior
Tesseract - Echoes
Tesseract - Nocturne (P O R T A L S)
Tigran Hamasyan - The Curse
Tipper - Gulch
The Comet is Coming - CODE
Them Crooked Vultures - Gunman
Tom Misch - The Journey
Tool - The Pot
Tool - Vicarious
Trivium - Silence in the Snow
Vulfpeck - Birds of a Feather, We Rock Together
Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles
Yosi Horikawa - Swashers
Yussef Dayes - What Kind Of Music