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I certainly havent got any free products from them. Their are independent reviews of their products available. However, I'm pretty sure many of the "reviews" in whf aren't particularly honest.

I agree with the video that any differences you have to focus hard to hear and they are nowhere near as important as headphone and speaker differences. It's quite simple really

There's nothing edgy with pushing science over subjectivity. That's the proper approach. My system may not be as expensive as some people's here but there are others with similar opinions to myself who actually do have expensive systems and have tried some very expensive equipment. Amir at Audio...

The thing is the whole thing would fall apart as people wouldn't be able to hear adequate differences between most products outside of speakers and headphones.

That's true. HiFi Choice wasn't great though. We don't know just how rigorously the blind testing was done, and they often gave opinions from single listeners ("one reviewer thought...") from the blind tests which aren't particularly meaningful. Certainly however they did avoid worshiping the...

I prefer not to except in extreme cases, but you do you.

That's not true. Not doing blind testing is flawed. Blind testing is a gold standard in science. Please stop making things up.

Exactly, ignoring measurements and blind testing is rather like that.

I don't mind them at all. I use their V3 amp and it's been great.

Bit of a guess at the moment but it looks to be keenly priced and Fosi has a good track record so far.

Let's just say I am far from convinced :D. He perhaps thinks he can. We know that blind testing is important here and practically nobody does it (including hifi reviewers)

Right up many people's streets I should think. CD isn't used much these days so why spend big money? Seems to be getting popular with teenagers though so good product.

Not much info on it but rumoured to be about $149.

Could be the mastering then. "lifeless" is quite a vague term.

It could be different masterings. Have you checked that? The only way to do a proper comparison is get the FLAC file and make an mp3 from it and compare those.