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?

 

Regards,

Audio_phool

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Dcs will lose a lot of customers because of this. I saw Cameron's video, heard his comments and saw the communications from the lawyer. Dcs are making themselves look foolish. Anyway there are hi end dacs that are better value than Dcs around.

@laoman, whatever happens in this case will happen, but my point is beyond this case. I think it's high time that there needs to be some standard guidelines set for reviewers and manufacturers.
Because of the lack of regulation a manufacturer can pressure the smaller reviewers in not publishing the negative reviews. Or vice a versa big reviewers can threaten small boutique manufacturers into asking for money else they will be threatened with bad reviews.

Both manufacturers bullying & threatening reviewers and reviewers asking for money & not disclosing it is very much prevalent in the industry. As the end consumers we want honesty from manufacturers and reviewers alike.

Regards,
Audio_phool

Wow if a reviewer tries to extort a manufacturer it would seem the manufacturer could document the extortion attempt and put it out there.  The loss of credibility would end that reviewing career.

  And I suppose the reverse is true.  The reviewer documenting an intimidation attempt by dCS would be enough to forever cross that manufacturer off of my list.  They must be desperate.  Their gear is stratospherically priced but given the fast development of digital technology much lower priced gear can yield similar results