ericp10
Sits up all night comparing IEMs.
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Hello James. Well my friend, we can respectfully disagree. All I'm concerned with is a head.fi member's genuine impressions of a product. Again, I don't believe there is any total objectivity in this forum, so why would I be concerned? Look at the Fisher products. Many of the main head.fi lovers of those products freely admit to getting the products free, and quite a few of them are highly respected for their opinions on those products. Should I assume since they were free that their impressions aren't totally honest? Rarely do people chastise those people and say, "Oh, you just like the DBA-02 because you received it at no cost." And to be honest, I respect some of those guys enough to believe they will say something is crap if they thought it was. I've seen them call items crap that they received for free. So, for me personally, I look for consistency James. Ultimately, it's up to me to try something myself if it peeks my interest. Now, if you're working the company, then that's something entirely different. But head.fi.org is not a website where I feel people's opinions about products must be and should be fully vetted. If this was a publication of some sort, I would probably feel differently about it, but it's not.
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Quote:It's not uncommon that some of the people who write about new products either did not pay for their sets and got 'free' samples, or got heavily discounted items, and all in exchange for 'free marketing', ie reviews.
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It's really none of anyone's business whether someone paid for their IEMs, got a discount or found them on the sidewalk - especially if that head-fi member is not representing the company or have some vested interest.
@Eric, I'm afraid here's one of the very rare occasions I have to disagree with you. I know from personal experience that it's virtually impossible to stay out of a certain conflict of interests, once you start being more than just an ordinary customer to a company or seller. I believe it's something of a "dirty little secret" on boards like these, that music_4321 is referring to. Don't get me wrong, it's nothing personal and no biggie, but from my point of view it would be ethical for reviewers to disclose under which terms they got their item. Just my 2c.