Answers | Q&A (Week of 3.31.25)

How equipment is chosen for Editor's Choice Issues.

Question:

This is a question regarding how TAS chooses to continue listing some products year after year in its annual Recommended Components (or Editors’ Choice Awards) listings, but some get dropped after only one or a couple appearances. For example, Andrew Quint reviewed the Audio Physic Cardeas 30 LJE speakers a few years ago, describing these speakers as the best he had ever heard in his listening space, providing “world class performance,” and commenting that with this speaker “one stand[s] to get sound as good as most audiophiles can hope to achieve in a typical domestic environment.”. But the Audio Physic quickly dropped out of sight in TAS’ recommendations. Just curious about the listing factors because other speakers, like various Magico speakers, reappear year after year. Thank you.

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BEP

Answer:

Robert Harley replies:

“The most common explanation for a product being dropped from our recommended lists is that the product has been discontinued or substantially changed.

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