Synergistic Research HFT + FEQ

Sabai, you are right that I am a reviewers, now for StereoTimes. I have never hidden that. My editors don't like me to post here or on other sites, but I insist. And in this case nothing I said was altered by my reviewing. I am not reviewing anything from SR now nor would it influence me were I to being doing one. There is a reason why I am with the third magazine now.

I should note that I asked Audiogon whether I needed to declare myself a reviewer as AudioAsylum requires. I was told no.

Tbg,

Thank you for clarifying this.

Tbg,

You have reviewed Synergistic Research products very favorably in the past. I thought it would be appropriate for you to make a disclosure because this thread concerns their products.

I find this thread interesting. SR does not like negative feedback, it is as simple as that.

In full disclosure, I won their MiGs in a Facebook contest after I started following them because my uncle is a user of several of their products. I shared pictures with them, thanked them, all that stuff. Then I started demoing the MiGs in my system and had my uncle demo them in his system as well. I didn't hear a difference in my system. My uncle claims to have heard a difference when using the MiGs, but wasn't impressed with them. So, I wrote a blog post sharing our experiences (my blog is relatively new). I'm a business writer, I report facts, the facts for me were that the MiGs didn't perform as marketed and that I wouldn't recommend them to other beginner audiophiles without trying them first, but I certainly didn't report that in a hostile tone.

Well, isn't it interesting that the first comment I received from an anonymous poster on the blog came to SR's defense (just like here) and basically told me that the MiGs didn't work because my system isn't of the right caliber. Ok, maybe my beginner audiophile setup isn't of the highest caliber, but my uncle's is a very nice system of separates, and he wasn't impressed either. And the way their marketing copy reads, their products should help any system.

Well today I discovered that SR has also blocked me from being able to comment or like anything on their Facebook page.

I think it's a bit silly that a company that is supposedly so ground-breaking and a leader in the industry can't handle a little bit of criticism from a personal blog. SR seems to be the one with an agenda to mute any naysayers. But I would never comment negatively on a product I haven't tried for myself in the first place.

Congrats to any and all who report their experiences honestly and objectively.