July 2026 Dear Friends, I hope you are enjoying our nice summer. This month, instead of talking about gear, I thought I would speak about the ethics of audio reviewing, which seems to have gone from bad to worse. For almost twenty years, I taught Professional Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at North Carolina Wesleyan University, so this is a subject near and dear to my heart. About ten years ago, I got into a very public discussion with the people from one of the print