michaelab
desafinado
I'll pick it up when I'm back in the UK in a couple of weeks. I might have to write him a letter.... :JPS:
Michael.
Michael.
spxy said:In issue 1 of hifiplus R.G wrote that no reviewer is allowed to keep any of the reviewed equipment for free as some other magazines have the practise.
He does state that they can buy at trade price some items(manufacturers discrestion) as can anyone in the industry.
If you liked a product you might want to talk about it a lot.Is this not a possible explaination for talking about some equipment a lot.
If you were given a pair of speakers for writing a good review about them but they werent really that good, would you keep them over better speakers?
How much Valhalla can Roy be getting to keep writing these glowing reports?
Does he have spagetti like plates of the stuff?
Surely if you like something you will promote it.
Sorry guys I cant get your reasoning.
The difference between me recommending Mana, and RG plugging North-East, is that I have absolutely nothing to gain from it.7_V said:And forum members have no axes to grind? No 'religious' preferences of their own - Mana, Naim, Merlin, Meadowlark, Seventh Veil, Wadia, etc., etc., etc., etc.?
The Devil said:The difference between me recommending Mana, and RG plugging North-East, is that I have absolutely nothing to gain from it.
Yes that's true. However, it doesn't make the advice of forum members any more reliable (or less), influenced as that advice is by the personal biases of members.The Devil said:The difference between me recommending Mana, and RG plugging North-East, is that I have absolutely nothing to gain from it.
7_V said:Yes that's true. However, it doesn't make the advice of forum members any more reliable (or less), influenced as that advice is by the personal biases of members.
The Devil said:Either it's a conspiracy, or there's something about those stands.
The Devil said:The thing is, Steve, all of the systems which I have heard that are really, absolutely top-flight have been sitting on Mana stands. Either it's a conspiracy, or there's something about those stands.
The Devil said:Well, all the people who knock the 'Mana presentation' must like distortion and noise
penance said:but that is utter poppycock.