Critic's Corner

Posted by john curl (M) on March 07, 2007 at 01:35:47

In Reply to: Re: I realize that Valin is a fiction writer of some note posted by Charles Hansen on March 6, 2007 at 22:05:25:

Charles, we are still good friends. I just take this cable thing with a grain of salt, because it happens all the time in some way. For example, a few years ago, a former 'Stereophile' reviewer refused to return the line cords or cables that my former business partner, Bob Crump sent in for review. Bob tried over and over, and was quite ticked off by the situation. I talked to that very guy at the 'Stereophile' party at CES. Should I have jumped all over him about it, or just let it go, as I have seen other examples like this over the years?
What really gets me is when the editors get really in denial about this sort of thing, although it might not be considered ethical by the magazine itself.
For the record, no magazine has ever personally taken one of my preamps or power amps for free, but I can't vouch for my employers over the decades. I just can't afford to anything away for free, and Bob Crump was in that position also, with his cables.