That is a very interesting question, and the number of answers will vary as much as there are music critics giving their opinion. ...And as much as there are various setups.
An artist, a musician, a painter, a film lover and critic, an audiophile, a music lover, ...will generally get positive comments from the people who have an intimate affinity to his/her art.
A master is one who encourages free expression in the creative arts.
Each master has more or less his/her own set of foundations from experienced learnings and teachings.
The art of music listening is similar to a painter, s sculptor, a surgeon, a musician, a filmmaker, a photographer, a fashion designer, an architect, ... some structures of solidity remain, pleasant results, preferred variations, intimate understanding, private respect, honest love, ...
The critic is also an artist in his own creative art of criticism.
Each painting, each film music score, each reproduced song/musical piece, ... from each environment, in different time frames, setups, ...project various emotions from different set of ears and eyes.
The emotional intensity of the audiophile will be affected by various critic's comments, positive, negative and neutral. The music playing is the same, the emotional level can be fine-tuned by the surroundings, and the people inside those surroundings.
This is only a simple view, a series of thoughts; it is complex.
What I think briefly is the accommodation, the affinity we have with other emotional souls of our art.
In that perspective I highly value criticism. It is advancing evolution for the better.
It's a very good question, again. It's like soul searching in the passions we all have...here the mastering art of music calibration.
I could write an encyclopedia about it, but I just won't.
