Even though this was posted 12 years ago the comment still applies today, even more so.
I used to go to audiocircle forums all the time until I had a very bad experience with a vendor who is a sponsor there and has his own forum. Long story short, I lost alot of money from this guy after I bought his crap gear and ended up selling it back to him at a loss.
I had posted my own very true responses to his forum as people asked questions. Questions like, "Does it normally take weeks for this guy to respond to emails about his gear?", "I cannot reach him by phone or email, has anyone else had this problem?". My answer would be, "Yeah I had that problem and ended up selling all his gear because I could not get in contact with him." The vendor banned me from his forum, and put my posts in the intergalactic wastebin!
Audiocircle is just a really fancy way to sell gear from vendors there as a primary function of the site. Second to that one can learn some general audio information there (and that is great) but really it’s not a forum to exchange ideas freely. Negative feedback or experiences about audio gear will be struck down and the reputation of that poster will be damaged, often by vendor fanboys or the vendor himself.
The main point is that..... don’t always believe hype about an audio brand or company ABC. You really have to cipher through the messages and experiences from fellow audiophiles and find the good advice. Try to understand that some sites, like audiocircle, will let the brand forums monitor the messages to enable their gear to shine. That is advertising, plain and simple....
I really think sogood51 had brought up a very good point.... some 12 years ago.
