While Golf Digest gets a lot of publicity for their Hot List tests, Golf Magazine's tests often get overlooked. Here's a link to their test of 12 different wedge models.
The Golf Magazine tests are different from the Hot List because they're done by 40 golfers, not by magazine staffers. There's a short video on the linked page that features some of those golfers telling what they liked about the clubs, as well as showing how the wedges actually look when you're standing over them at address.
There also are person hyperlinks to "group" critiques of every wedge, containing the combined know-how of all the testers. One thing I like about those pages is that there is a list of every loft/bounce mixture they examined for each wedge, in conjunction with the main technological innovation that every business enterprise is touting for that membership. You additionally get a quite comprehensive listing of the professionals and cons for every wedge as compiled via the testers.
Unlike the Hot List, you don't get a hierarchical ranking of the clubs -- you know, which wedges rate 5 stars vs which ones rate 1 star. However, since those rankings rarely tell me which club will work best for me -- and as the video shows, each of the clubs was the preferred choice of some of the testers -- that doesn't bother me.
If you're in the market for a new wedge, comparing these rankings with the Hot List should give you a pretty good base of information to begin narrowing your search.
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