The power of the review!!

Davey, everything anyone says can always be taken with a grain of salt and good joie-de-vivre.
There is no absolute in life, and even less in audio.

So for me the true power resides in the pudding; my own listening experience.
And that too is not even absolute to me. How can it be; I have never listened to all the speakers made in the world since say the last fifty years!

Methinks that some people take too much for account what others say.

The true power is not on what they say, but inside your own stay.
 
Amen to that Davey and amen also to all the people who agree together on the same product and who recommend it to others without having listen to it. :D

* I did not listen to the the Onkyo TX-NR818 AV receiver personally, but I am very familiar with Onkyo/Integra similar components caliber, and read extensively on that particular model myself.

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If more people here would be into surround sound, I would transfer some of my documents from other places.
Norman (wisnon) is into hi-res surround sound here, and Barry (Lefisc) too. ...Norm in particular has some interests in high tech surround sound (from Europe), with an approach that surpasses (way beyond) conventional/standard 7.1 or 9.2 or even discrete 11.3-channel Surround Sound System Setup (SSSS).
 
daveyf said:
That's a very good point, Bob. Personally, I have a rule, that rule is I will NOT buy any piece of gear or recommend it to anyone else, unless I have heard it for myself.
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I am not sure about this rule. How do you know that your taste will jive with the other person's? You may also know a house sound and can recommend a new model based on that sound plus feedback you got from trusted people.

I have a pal who is the perfect movie critic for me. I rush to see whatever he pans and avoid like the plague anything he gushes over. You just have to calibrate your reviewer properly. LoL
 
I was only using movies analogically. I understand that different things may be treated differently. Also, even in audio, cheap gear vs expensive gear can be treated differently.

I have never heard Peachtree Audio Deep Blue, but solely based on review, market demand and price, I have NO qualms recommending this over typical Bose competitor and over a typical Big Box retailer starter audio rack.

I spoke to one retailer this Summer that had 80 pieces on order and most were already pre-sold!!!
 
If I believed everything I read, I would own gear I would be really disliking by now. Been there, done that. Listen for yourself and decide. Ignore the noise. Listening to music is often a private experience. Buying gear should be the same.
 
daveyf,

That may be the best audio thread EVER. Thanks for posting about it here, otherwise I never would have searched it out.

It staggers the mind how quickly two friends posting about their fun comparison of speakers turned into a mud-slinging, muck-racking death match among the bystanders.

I would have posted this thank you in your original thread, but it's been closed. Sadly.
 
daveyf said:
On another forum that I am a member of, there was an interesting post from a member that called into question my knowledge of the speaker's that I own:rolleyes:. This member had based his post on an article that he had read that was by a well known and respected reviewer. Problem is the reviewer had unfortunately got it wrong in regards to a few points....the description of the drivers in my speaker to be precise.The interesting point is that this is fairly typical, as I have witnessed many a'philes who will swear by a product, defend a product or buy a product based solely on a review that they have read:huh:.
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Davey-you failed to mention that you didn't know the actual tweeter used in your speaker either. If anyone cares, they can go to the linked thread and read the email response from SF. The tweeter in the GH speakers is the D-28 V/2.
 
daveyf said:
Thank you.

As you can see, one of the main mud-slinging, muck-racking bystanders over there has chosen to follow me over to this thread, LOL:trouble:
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Well for the better side of prudence do tell. Who's presence are we graced with?
 
The power of review is information, the deduction is personal/self informative.......
 
Aren't you happy? ...Just a friendly token of encouragement Kev.
...Number of posts mean absolutely nothing, nothing at all. It's only there for fun, that's all. ...Just a reminder of when we got on board and how active we are/were.

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* Here's a true story: At another audio site (I won't name), I was quite active for few years, with 17,000+ posts.
And once in a while someone would make a negative remark about it (didn't bother me much),
but one of the moderators was jealous (didn't reflect good on the company he supports, some' like that)!!!
So I asked that moderator to simply put me back at zero (0 post count). But he said he couldn't do, because then new members would think that I'm also a new member, and blah-blah-blah.
But what he did was that: He was at around 6,000 posts at the time, now he's at 25,000 posts!
That he could do; post padding, and big time too. Sometimes one day to the next his count would have grown by another 500 posts.
I asked him why was he doing that; he didn't address my question, but he told another reputable member privately who also asked him the same question that his PMs were added to his post count!

So my sincere opinion on the number of posts a member has means absolutely zip to me.
But encouraging people, wishing them Happy Birthday, etc., yes, that means something, something good.

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Sorry Davey for the short interlude.
 
daveyf, I think it's great that Ahab, MEP, Khan, whatever his name is, has tracked you down. Now I see how people get banned from audio sites, multiple times. Extraordinary.

Thank you again.
 
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