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A tad on the holier than thou side IMO.

Right now in addition to brands less known in the U.S. that have 6 Moons reviews of one of their products either currently posted on the site or in process are these companies:

Genelec, Gryphon, Nagra, Devialet, Metronome, Vinnie Rossi, Aurorasound, Yamaha, NVO, LessLoss, ModWright, Pass Labs & First Watt.

Since Srajan announced the new policy of requiring companies to buy some form of an ad on his site there have also been other well known/established brands that submitted products for review on 6 Moons. Here's some of them:

Job, Fostex, Lounge Audio, Soundsmith, Lindemann, Crystal Cable, Accustic Arts, Canary Audio, Oyaide, Harmonix, Klipsch, Harbeth, Rogers (spkrs.)

Are you insinuating that companies that agree to buy an ad on 6 Moons under Srajan's conditions for a review are all complicit in corrupting the review process? You gonna refuse ad money from them and refuse to review their products?

Can you point to a single review that has appeared on 6 Moons since the policy change where you think the conclusions are basically bullshit heavily influenced by receiving ad money?

As far as I can tell, "pay for play" has made no difference to the conclusions of reviews at 6 Moons. It simply means they require some kind of an ad on their site (not necessarily costing a large sum) in order to get a product reviewed. Big deal. No ads in S'phile, no mag. Pan 2 or 3 products from a company and they'll likely stop advertising in your mag. IIRC your own wife is in charge of ads for S'phile but we shouldn't be concerned according to you due to your impenetrable "Chinese wall".

6 Moons does the same things you do (with the exception of measurements, which you don't do for your "columnists"). They discuss what ancillaries work well and not well with the DUT, the strengths and weaknesses of the product, and provide rec's - which like yours and every other hifi mag/e-zine are damn near all positive.



Edits: 05/22/16
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