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The "how many reviews it got" rule

This is my rule of thump when I purchase components online
without having heard them first.  If a component received a
lot of reviews, chances are the component is very good.
I mean the component has to be good to attract a lot of
reviewers. Most reviewers probably wouldn’t
bother to review something he doesn’t like in the first place.
andy2
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andy2 OP
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Whoa, 2psyop, everybody lies - what a world we live in.
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geoffkait
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Uh, there are perfectly good reasons why magazines won’t write negative reviews. 
jl35
3,976 posts
 
and lots of great stuff never gets reviewed...
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simao
1,817 posts
 
^^^^^
True. I can't speak for anyone else, but I have to remind myself every now and then that just because a particular component doesn't make a "Recommended Components" listing doesn't mean it can't hang with the ones that did. Perhaps it just didn't get reviewed.

There are myriad manufacturers out there and a finite amount of review space. Especially review space by knowledgeable and articulate writers.
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