Originally Posted by
davef
Definitely NOT comical and I ask that you please respect the opinion of others. I have seen even highly revered and decades old review sites / magazines get sued over reviews.
Let me just say this, Amir has angered a LOT of manufacturers. His company sells Harman gear, he has been advised and trained by Harman employees, he receives speakers direct from Harman for review (we call these golden samples) yet for other companies - he mostly gets them from customers sending them in. He doesn't have the background or knowledge to know if that particular speaker from said customer has been modified, or is performing properly - he simply publishes the results without having ANY contact with the manufacturer.
That is typically not how things are done.
We have had our products reviewed and measured, in every case - we have been contacted in advance of any publishing to review it. Not to change any subjective comments, but to check it factually and in the case of measurements, to see if they make sense. In fact, every professional reviewer that has ever reviewed a product for a company I have been associated with has proceeded in the same manner - contacting the manufacturer for a fact check prior to publication.
Even when we had a few of our products measured at the NRC, and this was by a team of professionals who have been doing this for more than a decade, the measurements were all reviewed in advance of publication.
In the next few days, I will document to you why this is so important.
That stated, I have had correspondences with Amir and while I do not agree with the way he is doing things, I do respect what he is attempting to do and should he get sued and his site shut down (yes, it can happen and at this point it wouldn't surprise me) - it won't be from us.