Where does one sign up for the DK junket? |
In what column on the bookkeeping ledger do you think those DK dollars go? Yes, those spent to bring this reviewer to hear these speakers? Marketing & Advertising, that's where. This is paid advertisement, plain and simple. If Mr. Khesin is committed to anything, it is the same thing that all business owners are: survival.
Investment & return...that is the name of the game. From drug companies, to cigarette makers, to audio manufacturers, they all pay to influence opinion. This is not about your health, your safety, or achieving audio nirvana. It's about making bucks. Either you make 'em, or you die. Period. That is why this guy is paid to come listen to a pair of stereo speakers, and that is why he writes what he does. Because he needs to eat! |
From the review: I thought that I had walked into a top secret NASA manufacturing facility, with workers walking around in space suits. It reminded me of a scene out of a James Bond movie, in which people were manufacturing something that could potentially take over the world. He hadn't even heard the speakers yet. We are talking about speakers, yes? In a one page commentary without testing involved, I'm not so sure. Every few weeks, someone has to come along and raise the DK product alert level to orange. Notice how rarely we're actually talking about the products themselves. Something's working, obviously. Marco, I'm not sure I understand your point. If it's that capitalism simply works this way, I have a hard time believing that you'd put the credence you currently do into a guy like Mike Sanders (Quicksilver) if he was paying to have someone come audition his products. It would necessarily subjugate his products to a role secondary to the image they must become in order to sell them. Fair enough, but then what are you paying for? Maybe I misunderstood your sarcasm. I apologize if I did. I agree with Larry, let's give DK a chance. But first, I think DK needs to give itself a chance. An amplifier that was released as "better than $20 separates"--a claim made by a dealer whose address belonged to a school in Nevada-- and speakers that are apparently set to "take over the world" hardly allow the audiophile public to approach a level of intimacy with the product itself. Perhaps that is the plan. Only they can say. Best of luck, Larry. Howard |
I think my head is actually in the spokes of the capitalist wheel, Marco. Thanks for the clarification, and I'll not try and make sense of your posts any longer, at least not with the use of my limited faculties!
Howard |
You're absolutely right, Marco. I've been tryin' to kick the habit, but I find there's nothing betterthancrack. |
The X Dream is a unique product that, given it's price, will interest less than 2% of the respondants on the page, if they fit within the normal demographics, so that may be worth some thought Is this what you were referring to, Rbstehno? I missed the part about a 2 watt amp. I can't imagine someone dismissing a speaker because it won't mate up with a 2 watt amp. As you say, most don't. |
but i really don't care either. as for people bashing a speaker system that might not work with a 2 watt amp, 99% of the speakers made would not work with a 2 watt amp, so what does that mean? Larry, this was Rbstehno's comment, and I could not find a reference for it. Either I missed the bashing he was talking about, or I guessed that somehow it was misconstrued, beginning with your reference to 2% (NOT to 2 watts). Your comment was crystal clear on the first go-round. Regards, Howard |
Thanks for pointing out the comment, Mghcanuck. I missed it entirely. It doesn't appear to me that you are bashing anything. You are simply asking for an honest review, with specifics to back up the hyperbole. A fair demand, I would certainly think. For this audio product, or any. |
Larry,
Will you have dealers where the speaker can be auditioned? Maybe somewhere in the Bay Area, perhaps?
Thank you,
Howard |
Think of the implications, Mr. Staples. Your oversight could have spelled doom for millions of animals had the participants shown up instead at the 3H club. And just how many people would have starved to death while looking for their next meal at the APPY UNTER? You may as well give up your efforts to build the world's finest speakers, having just destroyed the lives of ilary Swank, Clinton, and Sir Edmund imself.
Spellcheck, Larry. C'mon, the software is free, my friend. In this business, it's the little things that will urt you in the end.
Regards,
oward |
07-14-05: Lrsky
To all the well wishers, TVAD, Trelja, (thanks for the discs) Chadnliz, Boa2, and any I may have missed, THANK YOU. Foster_9, as you can tell from Larry's response of 7/14/05, I wish him only the best. I guess my play on Guido's spellchecker post didn't land with you. Larry, on the other hand, will undoubtedly know that what I said was merely a joke. Personally, I think that spelling and grammatical reprimands are the last refuge of a respondent who simply can't find anything else to criticize. Obvioussly, tat's jst meye sily oppinnion. |
Guidocorona, I think your Mr. De Simoni must have been the professorial counterpart to my 7th grade English teacher, Ms. White. If we'd only been able to find her a loving mate, I think she might have gone easier on us.
Don't worry about it. Tutto e bene, il mio amico. As forgiving as I am about poor spelling (maybe because of all the letters I received from my farm-raised grandmother) I am disgustingly arrogant about too many other things.
Enjoy your weekend,
Howard |
