In Reply to: Consumer Reports has repeatable non-biased tests -- other magazines write 3 pages on wires with no audible differeences! posted by Richard BassNut Greene on March 19, 2007 at 07:28:19:
they test something you know about. Then you discover that the assumptions they make in their testing are often wrong, sometimes ludicrously so.Apart from audio, I know bikes and photography equipment. I learned years ago that CR was incompetent to test and report on these things. I haven't checked in over a decade, maybe they've improved. But it makes me wonder if you can trust them to be right about toasters.
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