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How are the products to be reviewed selected?

I've been following a thread over on Hi-Rez about the Denon DCD-A100 CD/SACD player, a recent post questions how Stereophile could have missed the opportunity to review this product.

After reading the post and subsequent responses I began to wonder how a product that was produced to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this company could have been ignored by all the audio rags. Just for a moment consider the technology employed in this particular player relative to the price...other firms that are using the same DAC's are receiving a wealth of attention, and their products are being celebrated by the audio rags - at 3 and 4 times the price of the Denon.

I don't own the Denon player, I've only heard it in 2 separate systems, but it's a damn good player...certainly the equal of players such as the Esoteric X-05 and Cary 306 (at least in my opinion), and yet no attention.

So to my question - How do the audio rags decide what products to review vs those that are overlooked?

Rick.


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Topic - How are the products to be reviewed selected? - audio39 04:34:48 02/13/12 (37)

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