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

Belated apologies to @cleeds as I appear to have been channeling him without acknowledging the same!

There's always other brands of tea to savor.

All the best,
Nonoise

The vocal minority who are apologists for dcs I suspect are comprised mostly of owners or industry professionals, both of which have vested interests.

The whole trope about the products being great and that those who criticize the actions of the company would never buy the product anyway is an attempt at deflection.

No one has criticized the quality of dcs excellent products, though some have said that the sound quality is not to their taste, and certainly no one has called for a boycott.

And who is, or is not, a potential buyer of the products is again a deflection. Can one only have an opinion of a company’s management if one buys, or intends to buy, their products? Likewise speculating on their demise seems both ridiculous and unlikely. These things blow over, the company does damage control, and life goes on. Deflect, deflect deflect.

IMHO, the discussion centers on the attempt to influence a reviewer, nothing more.

@cleeds, perhaps I should have been clearer . . . I meant if DCS had the lack of common sense to actually file suit, I would happily defend Cameron for free. I don't appreciate the attorneys posturing and making baseless threats solely to use the threat of litigation to browbeat someone into submission -- in other words, I am happy to even the playing field for the little guy in this instance.

No one is treating this as an "international crisis" as you put it.  Rather this is extremely poor conduct by a well-known manufacturer, caught in the act of threatening a reviewer over a negative review, making frivolous threats and then denying that any threats were made because the word "litigation" was not used in their attorney's letter to the reviewer.  That type of conduct should not be tolerated.  I don't think that is an "international crisis," but I do think that it should be well-publicized and there should be ramifications for that type of improper conduct.

This is tragic mistake and an unforced error by dCS. 

Here at FutureAudiophile.com we've mistakenly bailed others out of anti-free speech issues such as Eric Alexander at Tekton Design. He foolishly attacked a YouTuber who measures some of his speakers. He laid empty threats on him and at the same time off-put his direct-to-the-customer clientele. Ouch. dCS did the same here.

If anybody would study Bose Vs. Consumer Union, we would know that there is a strong Supreme Court First Amendment precedent set that you can a) buy gear and review it and b) that doesn't remove your right to share your opinions. 

I know the VP of Marketing of dCS from his days at Wilson Audio and even before that. He should have known better.

In the event that there are any people here who don't understand the power of their vote this fall - your rights are being taken from you by a political party and a "dictator on day one" (his words not mine) is the end of your rights like free speech. The good news is that we aren;t dead yet. Vote to protect your rights because if you don't, you wont have any. 

Jerry