Isn't Bose and Premium an oximoron
Telling Bose fanatics it doesn't sound good is like telling religious fanatics their god doesn't exist.Though in the case of Bose, that statement would be true. If you were looking for a way to get in edgewise to take a hack at my God, I just want you to know that I resent that very much. I don't suppose you thought you were going to get away with it that easily. Also, I think it's in the forum rules to not address hot-button topics like faith and politics on this forum and certainly not in this section of the forum. So let's don't.
Wow. After browsing through all 5 pages of this thread, it suddenly occurred to me: HOW TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD WITH BOSE!It can't happen as Bose has enough disposable income to cream the competition. Let's face it when the entire am10 can be made with less than $50 worth of materials (which means a large spiff and profit margin so it will be pushed by sales associates and store), the market after sale, and the legal team they have then most businesses won't turn away income in the face of doing what is morally correct. It's very hard for a magazine to tell customers that product so-and-so which advertises once a year is a better buy than Bose and lose that income.
What will level the field is if American or even one country in the world could have a policy of truth in advertising that people could cross-reference thru the internet. What I would like to see is that products are forced to put labels on either the product or website that backs scientific proof. This is the only way that the average consumer will be able to get unbiased and truthful information but it won't ever happen.
What will level the field is if American or even one country in the world could have a policy of truth in advertising that people could cross-reference thru the internet. What I would like to see is that products are forced to put labels on either the product or website that backs scientific proof. This is the only way that the average consumer will be able to get unbiased and truthful information but it won't ever happenI can't agree with you more.
However, to stick closer to reality, a little grassroots activity such as subverting the already-corrupted Internet review system at Amazon, Epinions, and Audioreview wouldn't hurt. At the very least it would be more productive than just venting to the converted on forums like this.
However, to stick closer to reality, a little grassroots activity such as subverting the already-corrupted Internet review system at Amazon, Epinions, and Audioreview wouldn't hurt. At the very least it would be more productive than just venting to the converted on forums like this.Wow, I really agree with you there!! It bugs me to no end that I can't really trust Audioreview and Amazon's reviews, they are such great services sans the corruption!
It bugs me to no end that I can't really trust Audioreview and Amazon's reviews,Well actually there are ways around that.
Whenever you read an Amazon review, you can click on "See all my reviews" and look at the reviewer's history. There are basically two kinds of shill reviewers:
1. Those who make a living posting nothing but 4- and 5-star reviews, for instance "Harriet Klausner" who is Amazon's top-rated reviewer with a gazillion reviews or "Winterstone" whose 5-star reviews are often just copy-and-pastings of advertising copy.
2. Much more common are shill reviewers who have only one review in their entire history, and anonymous reviewers. These usually fall into the one- or five-star ratings.
I find that the 3 star reviews are more likely to have been written by real people. Also I tend to think that anyone who's written say more than 10 reviews on diverse products is more likely to be legit.
AudioReview I don't think has this kind of reviewer history record, I think Epinions does though.