The Silent Ballet uses a 10 point scale with .5 increments. 5denotes an "average" score, and anything above that is consideredgenerally positive, whereas anything below is generally negative. The Silent Balleteditorial staff respects the views and opinions of its reviewers, anddue to this practice exact scoring will differ from reviewer toreviewer. However, reviewers are asked to rate albums with thefollowing goal in mind:
* The 5-7 range to denote various levels of "above average/good" material.
* The 7-8 point range denotes "great" material.
* 8 and above marks a cd of exceptional accomplishment.

Thebottom half of the scale is a mirror reflection of the top, completingthe idealized bell curve, but TSB reviewers are notorious for beingunable to tell a "horrible" album from one that is just plain "bad."