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My complaint about their Buyer's Guide should not be construed as "bashing", even though some may feel that Stereophile left themselves wide open for that sort of criticism by making such an unrealistic claim regarding the inclusiveness of the Guide. No one, of course, should expect any such guide to be able to meet that standard. I just wonder why they went overboard when it could so easily have been avoided.
Beyond that, when I noticed that there were SO MANY of the heavy-hitters in the industry left unmentioned, it seemed to indict the whole project as worse than sloppy; I would have expected better from the publishers. Granted, it's their first attempt at such a product, but it's not as if it hasn't been done before, and Audio was the exemplar that Stereophile did not come close to matching. When they realized that their objective could not be met, their claim should have been modified. Instead, they end up looking incompetent.

And yes, of course the specifications and other information are provided by the manufacturers or their agents; that is the custom and there is no suggestion that the material is otherwise.

I think that most readers who expect something somewhat more thorough will feel shortchanged


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