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DCS Sending Legal Notice To Reviewer (Golden Sound) Over an Old Review of Their Bartok DAC

I saw this You Tube video which was posted by Headphones.com which at the beginning talked about the site taking the side of Golden Sound (GS) & then GS himself going through the details of what happened (his side of the story).

https://youtu.be/R7NxRFT6FiI

While I am not taking any sides until DCS comes out with their story publicly. While we all are aware that many times companies force reviewers to remove the criticism of their products by employing different ways. But what should be the way forward about the reviews for reviewers and companies?

Can we as the end consumers and as a community come-up with the framework around reviews?

 

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Audio_phool

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audio_phool OP
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Now all the drama has ended, dCS has released their statement apologizing for the entire fiasco.

https://dcs.community/t/goldensound-headphones-com-dcs-an-update/6740

Regards,

Audio_phool

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viridian
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David Steven admits to lieing in his first statement, is lieing in the second statement when he says "...we are not that kind of company..." when everything, including his mea culpa, proves that they are exactly that kind of company.

It takes a decades to create a successful company and only a few key strokes to destroy it. Shame on you David Steven.

grislybutter
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bullies usually win, regardless of the laws

audition__audio
1,475 posts
 

No bullies with deep pockets usually win. I doubt DCS has deep pockets.

moonwatcher
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I don’t get it to a large degree. Any device merely exists as a thing for anyone to check out and offer thoughts on it. Reviews are mostly subjective based on opinion or in a very few cases based on electrical or acoustic measurements. [Erin’s Audio does both.]

But a review is mostly just "opinion". So how can they be sued?

If I get say a Ford Mustang and I think it is a dog compared to a Dodge Charger, that is my opinion, take it or leave it. Ford can’t sue me for saying what I think, right?

From above @mahler123: "4) imo the correct policy for dCS to pursue would have been to issue a statement correcting what they perceived as factual errors in the review and left it at that."

Indeed.

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