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In Reply to: RE: Dunno what to make of 6 Moons new pay-for-review policy. posted by Rick W on July 21, 2014 at 14:07:27
has said he wont publish bad reviews unless the reviewer was either a designer or a manufacturer, thus able to adequately judge the output of a peer. He also stated that he was aware of the power he had to affect the business prospects of companies that have submitted products for review. The ensuing commentary is in the archives. My take was that the publisher had sent a veiled message to prospective advertisers, don't worry....your products are safe with us. Now the pretense has been dropped completely. You want coverage, pay up first.
The mag is free. You get what you pay for.
Best, Ross
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Hiya Ross:
I'd appreciate it if you directed all of us at the precise section in my archives where I supposedly said what you seem to remember so clearly. Whilst I wouldn't begin to claim that I can remember everything I said and wrote over the last 12 years, this does *not* sound like someone I would have said. We've never had a policy against 'bad' reviews - which really is a poor way of saying, 'critical'. And we've not had designers or manufacturers work as reviewers. Following your logic, we thus never could have had any critical or 'bad' reviews at all. Oh boy. Better explain that to Pathos Acoustics in our most recent incident of a quite critical review.
Cheers.
nt
....that Srajan mentioned. Seems fairly critical of the Pathos Amp:
"a few things became crystal clear out of the gate. Even on the very accurate French d'Appolito towers with ribbon tweeters, the Italian amp seriously downplayed timing and transient precision. Its reading of familiar tunes was far softer, thicker, fuzzier and frankly pudgy. It heavily prioritized weightiness, smoothness and general density. The price to pay was stark neglect of incision, energy transmission and quicksilvery reflexes. Everything sounded texturally bloated, blurry of focus and clumped together like a big mass of warm sound with very little articulation or distinctiveness"
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