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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:20:20 +1000, "Trevor Wilson"
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* Ignore magazine reviews (you have no idea what their agenda may
be)
Another conspiracy theorist ! Some reviewers may be deaf but reviews
are a very useful starting point for drawing up a short list.
**Why? How do you know that the reviewer did not just return from an
all
expenses paid trip to The Maldives with the manufacturer of the
product?
That would be payola. Have you ever heard of an audio reviewer getting
caught taking bribes for positive reviews?
**Am I aware that it happens? Yes. Do I know if anyone has been caught?
No,
I don't know.
Without catching someone, how does one know it happens?
**One is propositioned. I have been propositioned. I refused and the product
I represented was not reviewed. It is a poorly kept secret throughout the
industry. At least it was ten years ago. I can't imagine that anything much
has altered.
Talking to hifi dealers and research their suggestions in magazines
is
a good plan.
**LISTENING in YOUR room with YOUR speaker, to a range of different
products
in your price range is a good plan. Anything else is just daft.
It certainly is an ideal but if a dealer has a good room a lot can be
learned there.
**Some can be learned there, but without using the intended speakers,
that
knowledge may be useless. Expensive equipment needs to be auditioned in
one's own home. Anything else is just not good enough.
I agree about needing the right speakers. Back in the day after I
decided to Buy the Martin Logan CLSs with a Vandersteen sub I spent a
lot of time auditioning amps at that dealer. His room was larger than
mine. I think that worked out just fine. The differences I heard at the
dealer were very much the same when I finally got the speakers home and
extended those audtions,
**Exactly.
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