EISA Awards

[Gort1951]

The Sony str-da5400es has won an award for best av-amp for 2008-2009. How?

No one has seen or heard one and they can't be bought anywhere not even in N. America yet.

With the recent 2400 major hdmi over-ride bug, the problem may have existed on all their new av-amps delaying availability and yet Denon, Onkyo and Yamaha to name a few have all their amps out.

 

[John Duncan]

Aren't the EISA awards voted for by, shall we say, less-than-specialist publications?

 

[Andrew Everard]

 

[John Duncan]

Andrew Everard:

That'll be a yes then.

 

[Andrew Everard]

I think the UK hi-fi publication involved in EISA would consider itself to be rather more specialist than WHFSV.

Oh and BTW I am told that the circuitry in the 5400ES is completely different, and therefore that product is entirely unaffected by the HDMI/optical problem.

 

[John Duncan]

Andrew Everard:
I think the UK hi-fi publication involved in EISA would consider itself to be rather more specialist than WHFSV.

Oh and BTW I am told that the circuitry in the 5400ES is completely different, and therefore that product is entirely unaffected by the HDMI/optical problem.

Yes as soon as I said it I thought I could have used a more Choice phrase. But the whole concept seems a bit flawed.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Choice? That's News to me.

 

[John Duncan]

Whichever. They all look the same on the shelf of WH Smith - I don't actually buy them.

 

[Andrew Everard]

...is the correct answer!

 

[Clare Newsome]

It's worth mentioning that the rules of the What Hi-fi? Sound and Vision Awards clearly state that every winner has to be on sale in the UK by the date of the Awards issue (October 16th), and then on sale until at least the end of the year.

 

[Anonymous]

JohnDuncan:Whichever. They all look the same on the shelf of WH Smith - I don't actually buy them.

They are to scary to buy!!!!

 

[John Duncan]

welshboy:
JohnDuncan:Whichever. They all look the same on the shelf of WH Smith - I don't actually buy them.

They are to scary to buy!!!!

Except one, which has the Plus point of smelling gorgeous.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Or possibly the only point...

 

[Anonymous]

JohnDuncan:welshboy:

JohnDuncan:Whichever. They all look the same on the shelf of WH Smith - I don't actually buy them.

They are to scary to buy!!!!

Except one, which has the Plus point of smelling gorgeous.

I'm off to Borders for a sniff later on.

 

[Andrew Everard]

welshboy:
I'm off to Borders for a sniff later on.

See, there's something you had no idea you'd be typing when you woke up this morning...

 

[John Duncan]

Andrew Everard:Or possibly the only point...

Now now, Andrew, live and let live. It was they who finally convinced me to buy my Cambridge. Something about Ferdinand Magellan. Or maybe I was overcome by the vellum......

Course, it was in the "hifi for plebs that we wouldn't give house room" section.

 

[Andrew Everard]

JohnDuncan:Now now, Andrew, live and let live.

Oh I agree - a spot of Plush isn't to be sniffed at.

JohnDuncan:Something about Ferdinand Magellan. Or maybe I was overcome by the vellum......

Are you sure it was Megallen on the vellum? Not the chalice from the palace? Or the vessel with the pestle?

 

[John Duncan]

Andrew Everard:
JohnDuncan:Now now, Andrew, live and let live.

Oh I agree - a spot of Plush isn't to be sniffed at.

JohnDuncan:Something about Ferdinand Magellan. Or maybe I was overcome by the vellum......

Are you sure it was Megallen on the vellum? Not the chalice from the palace? Or the vessel with the pestle?

Amerigo Vespucci on the.....actually, we shall not go to Camelot.

 

[Andrew Everard]

JohnDuncan:Amerigo Vespucci on the.....actually, we shall not go to Camelot.

No, 'tis a silly place.

 

[Gort1951]

Best to ignore these EISA awards then?

Not even a review either or a comparison with other brands !

It's even published on the Sony UK website along with 4 other awards for products plus the fact that the USA gets products months before we do.

http://www.sony.co.uk/article/eisa-awards-2008

No doubt it's a good amp "regardless of price" Quote Sony but I've seen it advertised in Germany for £1600+ and it doesn't even have any networking and probably only one year warranty compared to the USA 5 year warranty for ES receivers.