Ralph we know about that trick, what you said is that having multiple speakers in the room completely invalidates the results, when they don't.
Wolf sorry but what you feel is unethical is done all the time on these forums and others many others/
If you think that their aren't shills or people who are directly affiliated with dealers or manufacturers who hide behind their screen names and post away, you need to wake up.
As per invalidating anything, when we tell the story of what products we tested brand x against and brand x beat brand y in these ways, many people who read these posts find that not as gospel but as a way of perhaps finding out about a new brand or a new product that they didn't know about or where not considering and find these discussions helpful.
We usually have pictures which back up the products we have been testing at the time, such as the $120k pair of Kharams, we passed on.
When I mentioned that Musicfx who did not purchase anything from us, found out about the brand we were recomending and sought out a dealer on his coast, he is in CA, and lo and behold found out the product we were recommending beat the Pass and beat the Prima Luna and made his Wilson Sashas sound fantastic, do you think he was happy to be reading our posts? Did we gain anything? The answer is no.
We have talked with many nice people all over the country and all over the world and most of these people have not purchased anything from us.
If we have it your way many new products would not be tried in peoples systems or even found out about in the first place, as the buyers can't always find a way of demoing a particular brand.
Do you think we know everything, we like you guys read the magazines, scour the forums and if a new product or brand makes sense we bring it in and test it vs our display inventory, when it is better we bring it in and sell off the older inventory.
Wolf what you read about and choose to do business with and make your opinions is up to you, if you read the posts about people who follow us and who have been to our shop, most people are blown away by the sound we can produce and the wide range of products we display.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ