REVIEW DISCLAIMER​

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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.

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- 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.

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TESTING PLAYLIST 

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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