mauidj;176222 Wrote: > > Stereophile reviews about 6-10 products a month and obviously would > rather review good stuff than bad. > So when asking for review samples they obviously pick products that > they alreay believe will be good ones. > Why would they do otherwise. >
Why would they do otherwise? Because it would actually make the magazine useful for something. When you're in the market for a new product, it's obviously very useful to have objective comparisons between products. Consumer reports, for example, is good for that, as are (in some cases) consumer websites like epinions. Stereophile doesn't serve that purpose at all - since all the reviews are positive, you have no way of distinguishing between the products they've already reviewed (all good) or the ones they haven't (bad? just not reviewed yet? who knows?). It's ridiculous to think that they only review good products - how can they know that in advance? They must have truly amazing judgement to only ever choose quality products. If you want to learn something about their judgement and integrity, read up on the Carver-Stereophile lawsuit - it's pretty instructive (see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Carver#Controversy). -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31860 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
