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

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.

bullies usually win, regardless of the laws

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

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.

Well I dont think that a manufacturer can object if they send a product to a reviewer for review. Now, as is the case with some/many ASR reviews, a product is sent to the reviewer from a member that may be a different situation.