I’ve seen the news that FTC will be regulating long term loans and other means of essentially bribing audiophile press reviews (let’s call it what it is) in exchange for favorable gear reviews.
I do support this wholeheartedly as it has become virtually impossible to read so-called “reviews” by the press of high end gear. Clearly, these reviewers have a huge stake in the commercial success of a product they are reviewing and as such are absolutely unreliable sources of information.
With that said, even with no skin in the game how do you really write a negative review if your reviewing practices involve only high-end top-notch gear from reputable companies?
As a reviewer are you able to even discern these extremes (two products being on the opposite ends of the sound quality spectrum); and second, is there objectively a piece of high end gear that’s just that bad? Or does this all end up being just “one man’s opinion?”
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I’ve seen the news that FTC will be regulating long term loans and other means of essentially bribing audiophile press reviews (let’s call it what it is) in exchange for favorable gear reviews.
www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/0…
I do support this wholeheartedly as it has become virtually impossible to read so-called “reviews” by the press of high end gear. Clearly, these reviewers have a huge stake in the commercial success of a product they are reviewing and as such are absolutely unreliable sources of information.
With that said, even with no skin in the game how do you really write a negative review if your reviewing practices involve only high-end top-notch gear from reputable companies?
As a reviewer are you able to even discern these extremes (two products being on the opposite ends of the sound quality spectrum); and second, is there objectively a piece of high end gear that’s just that bad? Or does this all end up being just “one man’s opinion?”
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