Re: The reality of magazine reviews
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:07 am
Avoid magazines, they're full of bullshit. What a waste of £5. In fact they are probably even more than that now .
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Those clicks generated around 100 email contacts and that turned into 15 orders, so far. I think that number would be a fair bit higher, but for the difficulty of shipping to the EU since Brexit. There was a lot of interest from Germany, France and Italy.George Hincapie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:19 pm I'm curious to know whether any of those 9,000 clicks translated to orders? It was an excellent review, and Tarun is great at what he does.
Congratulations! That's brilliant news. And of course the review stays on YT so more could come from it over time.savvypaul wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:45 pmThose clicks generated around 100 email contacts and that turned into 15 orders, so far. I think that number would be a fair bit higher, but for the difficulty of shipping to the EU since Brexit. There was a lot of interest from Germany, France and Italy.George Hincapie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:19 pm I'm curious to know whether any of those 9,000 clicks translated to orders? It was an excellent review, and Tarun is great at what he does.
We could build amps in Poland (Tomasz does upgrades and repairs already) but we would then lose some of the made in the UK kudos. It would also potentially push prices up to hold stock and equipment in two locations. I had hoped that the UK government and the EU would have come to their senses by now and rowed back on some of the hurdles to trade.
I'm guilty of that Danny. I always worry about buying the 'wrong' thing if that makes sense? Even though, as you say, the differences are negligable.Daniel Quinn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:19 pm Perhaps magazines reflect the reality that there is very little difference in the sound of equipment but audiophiles spend an age on minor differences in presentation .
Which can also translate into unnecessary 'upgrading'. I had a perfectly serviceable and very respectable-sounding Rega Mira integrated (older, clamshell design). When I came into a small amount of money (courtesy of my now deceased Aunt, Gold bless her!) I thought I'd take the opportunity to upgrade, on the basis of believing there must be something 'better' available as I'd had the Mira for several years by then. I plumped for a newer Elicit instead. I'm not sure I can hear much in the way of difference between them, if I'm being honest with myself.George Hincapie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:47 pmI'm guilty of that Danny. I always worry about buying the 'wrong' thing if that makes sense? Even though, as you say, the differences are negligable.Daniel Quinn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:19 pm Perhaps magazines reflect the reality that there is very little difference in the sound of equipment but audiophiles spend an age on minor differences in presentation .
Absolutely, replacing a perfectly good piece of equipment with something else because of a perceived improvement is pretty common. In Hi-Fi, objective analysis is so flawed that it is impossible to determine whether something is an improvement. How often has an objective improvement resulted in a subjective degradation?Daniel Quinn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 10:59 am Anybody who is on this forum was guilty at some point