Getting to Know Me — and the Music I Use to Review Speakers and Subwoofers

Lately I’ve been busy churning out reviews for SoundStage! Access and SoundStage! Hi-Fi, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the process. While listening to, evaluating, and comparing audio gear comes naturally — I’ve been involved in the hobby for 25 years — I’m relatively new to reviewing that gear, and in the past year I’ve learned a lot about how to write reviews. As a career public servant working in the sciences and regulatory sectors, I’ve done my fair share of technical writing, and that’s helped me in writing the technical sections of my reviews — but I continue to sharpen my skills in describing, in the Listening sections, what I hear.