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RE: An Open Letter To Robert Harley

Steven.

My 2 cents:

You got long time audio experience and spent a fortune (from my perspective)
on your system. I guess you read a lot of magazines to take your buying decisions.

By now you actually should have understood how magazines work.

Magazines are mainly meant for marketing of products. They support (by trying to manipulate) you in making your buying decisions.
This is normal life and there'is nothing wrong about it. That's the
way it is. Though, this implies that they've neither ever been objective, nor they will ever be objective. They just can't. That's not why there are here.

The ones paying for advertisements in magazines are king.
Ususally only mass market or big brand companies are able to afford it.

Writing great reviews about niche products and by that kicking your best paying long time customers butts won't work.
They have to be very careful here and for sure they're not stupid.

I would just read it and enjoy. I think it makes you feel good to know, that you know better then the so called "specialists".

By writing these kind of "open letters" you're IMO saying: "I havn't understood".

If you want to discuss things like that, better do it over here at AA.
















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