In Reply to: How are the products to be reviewed selected? posted by audio39 on February 13, 2012 at 04:34:48:
Well Denon could start by asking the magazines to review their player. The other is for someone on staff to have heard it and felt that it was excellent and they request the unit from Denon or the distributor.
Some brands go under the radar because if most of the stuff that they make is deemed mediocre then one tends to put them on the ignore list - then when they do come out with some anniversary edition "this is better than the usual stuff we put out" few people are aware of it. They're busy reviewing stuff that is consistently superior.
Speaking personally I am rather tired of reading reviews of stuff that pretty much anyone can spend 5 minutes in their local shop auditioning. You could probably audition the mainstream usual suspect brands yourself at a local shop faster than waiting for your subscription to arrive in the mail.
Reviews are more helpful when they tell you about stuff that you might have to make trip to go audition.
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- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - RGA 06:05:07 02/13/12 (19)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - Jim Austin 08:18:58 02/14/12 (2)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - RGA 22:06:42 02/15/12 (0)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - LouGiants 10:52:10 02/14/12 (0)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - audio39 07:13:51 02/13/12 (15)
- I wrote about Luxman's DU-50 player in Stereophile last year... . - John Marks 09:49:00 02/13/12 (14)
- RE: I wrote about Luxman's DU-50 player in Stereophile last year... . - audio39 10:18:04 02/13/12 (13)
- What can I say? - John Marks 12:40:34 02/13/12 (12)
- RE: What can I say? - audio39 13:01:58 02/13/12 (11)
- There is an entire spectrum.... - John Marks 15:26:58 02/13/12 (10)
- RE: There is an entire spectrum.... - tmsorosk 05:37:17 02/14/12 (1)
- Thanks for the laugh! - John Marks 15:37:07 02/14/12 (0)
- RE: There is an entire spectrum.... - fmak 00:45:51 02/14/12 (7)
- Re: WHY can't you buy or borrow one????????????????? - John Atkinson 04:50:37 02/14/12 (6)
- Re: WHY can't you buy or borrow one????????????????? - fmak 22:10:19 02/15/12 (5)
- Re: WHY can't you buy or borrow one????????????????? - John Atkinson 04:36:01 02/16/12 (4)
- This - fmak 08:06:29 02/18/12 (1)
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- So what if I buy it and send it to you for review??? - audio39 06:03:23 02/16/12 (1)
- RE: So what if I buy it and send it to you for review??? - John Atkinson 16:20:07 02/17/12 (0)