The musical taste of tech reviewers S/D

I get IA when I'm reading a review of some new laptop, or set of headphones, and the reviewer not-so-casually slips in a reference to their musical taste, ostensibly in service of the review. For example, in this review:

The speakers are certainly loud -- when listening alone in my apartment, I opted to cap the volume at around 25, but probably could have gone even lower. But like so many other laptop speakers that came before it, these can sound a bit tinny, depending on your musical selections. Frank Zappa's "Son of Mr. Green Genes" and Motown songs like Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" seemed to be missing some crucial bass and drum notes. Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love" sounded better, but then again, it's a tinnier track to begin with.

Audiophile gear reviews are chock-full of this.

when I was a kid scanning reviews of anything music-related I could find, I would muse long & hard on whether you had to be into the stuff tech type writers were into if you were gonna have good tech

We did rundown tests on all of our picks to confirm their approximate playing life, repeating Steely Dan’s “Aja” at an average level of 75 dB (measured at 1 meter) over and over until the power ran out.

Mutiilation's "Vampires of Black Imperial Blood" had lost none of it's burned-on-cassette-tape midrange sear, with a soundstage as tight and painful as a clogged artery.

tubular bells

In my studio, where I paint, I have a pair of magnapan 1.7's. And, I have a pair of cone speakers. On Mark Cohn, Walking In Memphis, the 1.7's make the great piano virtually disappear. The cone speakers bring everything together in a great soundstage.

"With the right source (like The Tape Project’s dub of Reference Recordings’ Arnold Overtures—horrible music, great sound—or the superb Philips LP of Richard Rodney Bennett’s terrific Piano Concerto), your jaw will drop when you hear the way these relatively demure panels fill the back third of your room with precisely layered, minutely detailed, incredibly deep, wall-bustingly wide sound."

I prefer ball-bustingly wide sound.

this one pops up all the time in audiophile writing and pretty much nowhere else

https://images.991.com/large_image/Jennifer+Warnes+Famous+Blue+Raincoat+The+Songs-525352.jpg

other ones that are classics:

http://images.publicradio.org/content/2012/12/05/20121205_time-out_91.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-Pb5T%2B23L.jpg

and of course

http://www.inthestudio.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/steely-dan_aja.jpg

generally also feel like they'll throw at least one classical/symphony record on there but it's less predictable as to what it will be