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)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - Rob Doorack 17:47:52 02/14/12 (4)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - Jim Austin 04:53:55 02/15/12 (1)
- I agree and when you hear something excellent from a small company, giving them notoriety. nt - Norm 15:21:46 02/22/12 (0)
- I recall a review... - mkuller 20:35:41 02/14/12 (0)
- RE: "Art knew that I'd volunteer for just about any turntable that was offered to Listener" - 1973shovel 19:02:19 02/14/12 (0)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - fmak 00:38:45 02/14/12 (0)
- I decide using the time-honoured method... - Alan Sircom 21:54:45 02/13/12 (1)
- Silly goose, everybody knows that witches float.... - cjfrbw 23:43:05 02/13/12 (0)
- I'm definitely not on the selection committee. - soulfood 10:25:10 02/13/12 (0)
- Usually there are three ways... - mkuller 09:19:17 02/13/12 (1)
- And then there are - Frihed89 17:01:12 02/13/12 (0)
- Well, first they see if a Musical Fidelity product has been released or up-packaged... - Enophile 08:53:21 02/13/12 (1)
- That IS true.. at least it has been way too much like it was true at Stereophile anyway.. nt - Elizabeth 13:22:51 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - John Atkinson 07:23:37 02/13/12 (3)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - fmak 21:57:18 02/13/12 (0)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - audio39 13:19:36 02/13/12 (1)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - josh358 19:03:38 02/14/12 (0)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - RGA 06:05:07 02/13/12 (19)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - Jim Austin 08:18:58 02/14/12 (2)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - RGA 22:06:42 02/15/12 (0)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - LouGiants 10:52:10 02/14/12 (0)
- RE: How are the products to be reviewed selected? - audio39 07:13:51 02/13/12 (15)
- I wrote about Luxman's DU-50 player in Stereophile last year... . - John Marks 09:49:00 02/13/12 (14)
- RE: I wrote about Luxman's DU-50 player in Stereophile last year... . - audio39 10:18:04 02/13/12 (13)
- What can I say? - John Marks 12:40:34 02/13/12 (12)
- RE: What can I say? - audio39 13:01:58 02/13/12 (11)
- There is an entire spectrum.... - John Marks 15:26:58 02/13/12 (10)
- RE: There is an entire spectrum.... - tmsorosk 05:37:17 02/14/12 (1)
- Thanks for the laugh! - John Marks 15:37:07 02/14/12 (0)
- RE: There is an entire spectrum.... - fmak 00:45:51 02/14/12 (7)
- Re: WHY can't you buy or borrow one????????????????? - John Atkinson 04:50:37 02/14/12 (6)
- Re: WHY can't you buy or borrow one????????????????? - fmak 22:10:19 02/15/12 (5)
- Re: WHY can't you buy or borrow one????????????????? - John Atkinson 04:36:01 02/16/12 (4)
- This - fmak 08:06:29 02/18/12 (1)
- RE: This - John Atkinson 05:08:10 02/19/12 (0)
- So what if I buy it and send it to you for review??? - audio39 06:03:23 02/16/12 (1)
- RE: So what if I buy it and send it to you for review??? - John Atkinson 16:20:07 02/17/12 (0)