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RE: Just to whine more, What about the fact xxx only gets to review stuff OFFERED, This also is a bias..

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In Reply to: RE: Just to whine more, What about the fact xxx only gets to review stuff OFFERED, This also is a bias.. posted by Smelly_Socks on May 23, 2016 at 21:39:28

"See the distributor at a show, have a conversation, offer a product, accepted. Schmoozing at it most mundane. And what about products from companies where you just despise the guy? I bet none..."

Have you ever spoken with Alon Wolf of Magico? That company gets plenty of reviews, and he's a nudnik.
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They call me The Kosher Butcher. I only fight in Orthodox stance.

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Alon Wolf / Magico - Inmate51 10:40:14 06/28/16 (1)
Last November, Magico Operations Manager Dave Shackleton was gracious enough to give me a full tour of the Magico Audio manufacturing facilities. He also treated me to a listening session in their excellent listening room, with very high end electronics and their wonderful S7 speakers. It was getting late in the afternoon. Mr. Wolf came in, introduced himself, and politely said that we needed to wrap it up and power down the system. He was very cordial to me and we chatted for a few minutes. I found him to be a very interesting and insightful person. He was clearly in "business mode", but quite personable and definitely not rude or 'short'. It would be nice to talk with him again when we have more time.

To your description of him as a "nudnik" (a word which I actually had to look up!), I would disagree. Observers are often put off by people who are intelligent and focussed on what they do, especially in the sciences arena. Sometimes, this is because the two people are just on different "planes of thought", and it doesn't mean that one or the other is a "nudnik".

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- RE: Alon Wolf / Magico - horn kid 10:20:54 09/30/16 (0)
  Too many words used for a very clear situation: most reviewers, nearly all, are very heavily biased for one of several clear reasons, which involve a combination of friendships, favors, influence from those who run the site or magazine, outright graft.....and throw in a large dose of incompetence in most cases.
  Those who go by the reviews instead of careful listening end up with what they should expect to get when going by the advice of others who they don't know at all and who have large potential vested interests.
  So, Smelly Socks, it is indeed a messed up system, and full of bias, as you suggest.
  
  Edits: 09/30/16
:-) /n - Ivan303 11:50:48 06/18/16 (0)
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