reviewers should be telling people about the cd they are reviewing,frequently the review tells us more about the reviewer. They should not be using the review to promote themselves,as they on occasion do.

Give examples please. Better if in reviews of your works, so we can judge your objectivity. But please back opinions with facts.

many cds today are of a very high standard.

Now here we really are in the land of opinion as fact. The opinions I've heard voiced from those on the receiving end of CDs circulated in the folk world for review rather differ. On balance, juggling various opinions voiced, I'd be inclined to believe that there are some of a higher standard than we have been used to in the past, but many that are vanity-published and of low quality and little appeal. Of course, that requires me to give some weight to the opinion of reviewers, and since you have already stated that most of them have no idea, this becomes rather a futile discussion I feel.

Sorry, but I still hear the sound of ground axes.