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In Reply to: RE: Mejias' budget system posted by RGA on October 05, 2012 at 01:55:14
"He writes for Stereophile so at least he BOUGHT the stuff he has."
For clarity, please explain the significance of your claim.
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Most companies will provide components to reviewers at around dealer cost (perhaps manufacturing cost) since it does not "cost" the manufacturer any money. Equipment at a reviewer's rate in this regard is still at a level playing field. For example - the reviewer has review ten speakers all retailing for $5,000 may be able to get all ten of them for $2,000-$2500. Which is about what the average audiophile would pay on the used market. The review sample, when the reviewer is finished with it, is now a used loudspeaker. Further that accommodated price usually comes with strings like you can't sell the item for a year or two and it must be in your system for a period of time etc.
Few manufacturers will give for free expensive equipment to reviewers as a sort of payment for a good review (3-5 year loans may be called a "loan" but I think it would be fair to object to that IMO).
I don't place the blame necessarily on the reviewers - the manufacturers who are happy to give amps and speakers to studios and reviewers are doing it for their advertising which probably means it is stuff that can't sell based on listening sessions.
Having auditioned heavily a lot of well reviewed famous gear that is "given" to recording studios and reviewers it is almost always stuff that at normal retail to the average audiophile would not make my top 20 of the given classification of gear. In other words they need all the help they can get and you tend to like it more when it's free.
Further if you have a massive ego and "expect" manufacturers to kiss your ass then you can be quite vindictive if you are not "given" stuff for free because after all 12 other companies are willing to give you stuff so why aren't you?
Sometimes it's more interesting to see what is NOT reviewed in certain magazines which may tell you that those companies don't play the "freebie" game.
You pointedly asserted to know how Mejias acquired his budget system. No reason, I suppose.
Well I would assume that he paid for it. I could of course be wrong if Mejias could be bought you'd think his standard would be a bit higher than entry level inexpensive products.
I am not familiar with him as a reviewer but the impression I got was that he was being attacked in a way for not having a supremely high end (read expensive) rig. My main system is in Canada and I have purchased a new budget system while working in Hong Kong. Having a budget system doesn't make me hear worse. It's very possible to have taste and class and great ears on a tiny ass budget - and it's possible to own a top of the line $300,000 stereo money stuffed in the pillows and be completely classless, tasteless, and tone deaf.
I'm pretty sure Mejias can listen to a big MBL, Quad, Harbeth etc and not be under the impression the PSB Alpha B-1 is better sounding. Although this is an assumption as well.
IMO, EVEREYTHING sounds better than a $500,000 MBL system. MBL represents what has gone wrong with "high end" audio: horribly inefficient speakers, 1000 watt ss amps, and crapy digital.
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