So What Hifi gave out its awards. BIG SURPRISE, the KEF LS50 meta and Chord DACs won awards. Eyes rolling up at the sky...
may i ask why do you think that is ?So What Hifi gave out its awards. BIG SURPRISE, the KEF LS50 meta and Chord DACs won awards. Eyes rolling up at the sky...
What Hifi gets freebies. Or, certain companies buy advertising. Pay for play.may i ask why do you think that is ?
I am sure you can back up those allegations with solid evidence.What Hifi gets freebies. Or, certain companies buy advertising. Pay for play.
Really? Strange how most of the other hifi publications tend to agree with them as well.Shock horror - makers of two of Britain’s most popular and successful products win an award!
He's entitled to his opinion. He doesn't need solid evidence to back up an opinion.And I can
I am sure you can back up those allegations with solid evidence.
Of course companies pay for advertising, do you expect them to get it for free?
Please note my comments were made as a forum member and not with a moderators hat on.Mmmm. 'Attacking'?! Really?!
Sure, people can have their opinion. But come on. This statement is just rubbish.
To quote... 'eyes rolled up at the sky'...
Moderation is one thing. I get it, there are doughnuts on social media. This, I believe, is just codswallop.
Feel free to hit me with the ban-hammer as clearly this site is now heavily over moderated.
Are you really asking or is that a trick question?may i ask why do you think that is ?
you have a point but dont all magazines, hifi or otherwise, do the same ?What Hifi gets freebies. Or, certain companies buy advertising. Pay for play.
just wanted him / her to elaborate as to why he / she posted that...Are you really asking or is that a trick question?
Here's one for you: how do you think magazines survive?
ROFLMAO.
The SAME day the new LS50 meta and wireless version were announced, What Hifi presented reviews of both! On the same day the new products are announced to the public, What Hifi is already giving them 5 stars...And I can
I am sure you can back up those allegations with solid evidence.
Of course companies pay for advertising, do you expect them to get it for free?
It tells me it's compatible with Cr-Apple. If it wasn't it would lose a star!What does that tells ya?
What are you talking about?!It tells me it's compatible with Cr-Apple. If it wasn't it would lose a star!
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That WHF were possibly given review samples ahead of the public announcement. Manufacturers time their announcements to what suits them best, and often products are fully developed and known about internally long before the public gets to know about them.The SAME day the new LS50 meta and wireless version were announced, What Hifi presented reviews of both! On the same day the new products are announced to the public, What Hifi is already giving them 5 stars...
What does that tells ya?
It is commonplace, not just in hifi, for products to be supplied to publications for testing, before that product is released but, with a non disclosure order in place. The reviews can then be published on product release day. This happens all the time with new home computer hardware.The SAME day the new LS50 meta and wireless version were announced, What Hifi presented reviews of both! On the same day the new products are announced to the public, What Hifi is already giving them 5 stars...
What does that tells ya?
So did all the other reviewer around the world, it's called good marketing on KEFs part, Camera companies do exactly the same thing they even have large events where YouTubers and influencers can go to play with those cameras and give a first look.The SAME day the new LS50 meta and wireless version were announced, What Hifi presented reviews of both! On the same day the new products are announced to the public, What Hifi is already giving them 5 stars...
What does that tells ya?
What Hifi gets freebies. Or, certain companies buy advertising. Pay for play.