Seems to me there's an elephant in the room. Advertising pays for all these magazines, and manufacturers pay for advertising. Editors are too smart to just put a good review near an advertisement for the product - the process is more subtle.
The reviews will be favourable at the brand-level. Supposing company A puts out several devices and they advertise with the rad. Company B puts out a similar device, and the review will be equivocal and in the bowels of the magazine/website. Company A puts out a new device - covershot, positive if not glowing review, product placement, smiling faces etc etc. I agree with the OP that including just.plain.technically.wrong information in a review like that is utterly dangerous - it promotes a notion in the consumer mind that the CD is the gold standard which is just balls. And 6k GBP for a CD/DAC combo - get a grip people. Spend it on an airfare to a gig and get a squeezebox or 1k combo instead. Or give it to development agencies - that's just a bag of noodles where a brain should be. Even punters like me know that. -- Dingostrategy Lounge: SB3 + Genelec 6010A | Kitchen: SB3 + $80 bookshelf stereo. Top shelf gear. | Bedroom/Terrace - Boom | Headless Asus EEE Box & Linux Mint | iPod touch/iPeng "Dear Mother, kindly forward underwear, DAC and those Jensen's I bought offa ebay" 'dingostrat...@last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/DingoStrategy/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dingostrategy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19528 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64972 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
