[Toom]

Has anyone sent the guy an email or posted a comment to clarify? 
 
Anyway, good luck everyone on getting your R2s soon!   Hopefully this time next week a lot of us will be happy campers!

 

[rovopio]

  Give the guy a break.  He's only wanting to trade it for something else, not sell it - why is that a big problem?

 
Issue no 1 is that he speaks very, very highly about Flare Audio's IEM. He went as far as saying it will be his personal Reference Point from now on (paraphrasing here).
How can an IEM be a Reference Point in future reviews if they are selling them.
 
Issue no 2 is that, some review samples has Review Samples-ish quality to them. Early Productions, Special Markings (Made for [insert name here]), etc. I don't know about every Audio Companies out there but as far as I know there are some that doesn't allow their review samples to be sold. Some samples you have to ship them someplace, some samples you can keep them but you can't sell them. It's written on your Contract and NDA that you have to agree to prior to getting a sample.
 
Basically my issue about his flipping is that he writes about R2 IEMs SO VERY GOOD so much so that I want to get them immediately (as far as saying it's his Reference Point), as reviewer Reference Point has to mean something. Yet he then flips them so quickly.
I wouldn't be questioning his Glowing Review if only he flips them in like, October or something.
 
Either way, I can't speak better about this than money4me247 has speak about it... The post is edited as the below parts are the parts I strongly agree with...

   I personally don't really care too much what a reviewer personally decides to do with a free or purchased review item.
 
Trading a (possibly free) review sample for a higher value item after publishing a review that claims the IEMs reviewed outperform other headphones similar in value to the item that he is trying to obtain via trade does give me strong pause. Writing an extremely positive review and highly recommending it prior to immediately trying to get rid of it does indeed seem to be a quite interesting choice of action that appears a bit contradictory to me.
 
Basically, reviewers can do whatever they want with reviewed gear,.... I would personally be wary of the content of the review...

 
+1

 

[LuckyNat]

If he's got the pros too then it's quite likely that over time he found the pros that bit more rewarding - some things sound better after a long listen and the brain/expectation bias has adjusted. I suspect that many who have prefered R2As over Pros probably do so because it is closer to what they already know and are unwilling to move so quickly to another presentation.
 
So, that doesn't mean his view on the sonics of the R2s could be called into question.
 
I guess what is the point of having a load of review samples hanging around the house? It must be tempting to swap them with people for other things and human nature means that people will be tempted whether that puts them in a bad light or not.
 
My thoughts on it extend to "That's a shame..."

 

[LuckyNat]

I guess people didn't notice his advert for the Flare Audio R1s back in January?
 
Is still a live advert: http://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649170060-flareaudio-r1/
 
That ad went up at 9am the very day after he published the review!
 
 
Maybe Flare Audio is one of the very few companies who haven't asked for their review samples back and that 24bit always sells the review samples no matter who they are?

 

[MusicalChillies]

So it seems someone from UK already got them. Damn, lucky him. :devil_face:  

Who has them?

 

[Axis1]

If anyone wanted the fairest and unbiased reviews that got to be the sound engineers and musicians opitmizing their tracks for R2s.

 

[Toom]

Who has them?

Caffeinejunkie

 

[MusicalChillies]

We must be imminent then Toom...

Edit. i.e Maybe this afternoon

 

[WCDchee]

Who has them?

I guess people didn't notice his advert for the Flare Audio R1s back in January?

Is still a live advert: http://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649170060-flareaudio-r1/

That ad went up at 9am the very day after he published the review!


Maybe Flare Audio is one of the very few companies who haven't asked for their review samples back and that 24bit always sells the review samples no matter who they are?

On the contrary, flare has made it very clear that review units are tp be returned in 10 days and only a very small handful were allowed to keep it them.

 

[Toom]

We must be imminent then Toom...

Edit. i.e Maybe this afternoon

 
I'm in London and #633.
 
Am having delivery to me at work, and UPS normally deliver early afternoon here (we use couriers all the time), so fingers crossed......

But I reckon more likely early next week.

 

[MusicalChillies]

I'm in London and #633 so.......

NW Essex and 147 but not with me yet...

 

[WCDchee]

 

[MusicalChillies]

Nice. Early thoughts? Reviews mildly close?

 

[Toom]

 
Tease!  How do they sound?

 

[WCDchee]

Well i have tried all the models before having met up with naomi earlier in the month before the campaign ended, amd yes theyre absolutely brilliant