For the most part, especially when dealing with items that I know ANYTHING about, I've found them to be so far off the mark that I can't help but wonder if their articles usually do more harm than good... which is why I'm leary to trust them even for recommendatons on items I don't know about. When it comes to audio equipment and automotive recommendations, I've almost always found them to be completely off the mark. Their automotive reliability & satisfaction data doesn't even closely match JD Power's more extensive data, and they constantly fail to factor in a certain type of car's appeal to it's potential buyer (I still chuckle when I think back to 2002 when they ranked the Hyundai Tiberon significantly higher than the Camaro Z28 and Pontiac Trans Am. They completely miss the point that those cars appeal to 2 entirely different types of buyer). Their speaker testing procedures are useless and do nothing to actually determine what may be the "better" sounding speaker through any sort of useful analysis such as distortion analysis, or even frequency response for that matter.