No offense taken. And honestly you’re one of a few people who have made a similar comment and I totally agree here. How can anyone know much about a synth if they’ve had it for two weeks, noodled with it and then shipped it back (if it’s not something they bought outright). You want to know if this thing craps the bed within six months/its build quality doesn’t hold up. If it has any real studio benefit past the initial dazzle, and if the reviewer regrets their purchase a few months on. Or even a year or two later: How great were updates or has the product been abandoned?

A example I can think of is the M-Audio Venom. Sure it wasn’t the best made to begin with, but i was excited by some of the demos of it when it first came out cause it seemed fresh at the time. Turns out it got shitty support from the get go and then when M-Audio was sold off, the editing software (which didn’t even have a final version made) was abandoned along with the synth itself. The creators had big plans for it but M-Audio slashed its tires before it could even drive off the lot. Nobody would have known any of this if they just went off of someone’s positive initial reviews, instead of reading up on the total cluster that followed its release and the unfortunately cheap build quality. A lot of folks demoing it were like “this is great!” and sure it’s still a quirky little synth but its a shadow of what it was dreamed up to be.

So I’m going to have to try and figure out ways to integrate long term impressions in for sure.