DTB300 said:
Forums are full of opinions, conjecture, preferences, and sometimes plain stupidity. They should be used as a place for possible ideas, but never the final or ending truth. Over time one may find a person or persons, who report and reply in such a way that it agrees with your perceptions or ideals. Then you can possibly start to "trust" their statements and replies - to a point.
The forums "may" be a place to learn something, but can also put you completely out in left-field. Remember the topics and discusions are just more pieces of information - right and wrong - in a very large puzzle.
Dan
This is true. I find more mis-information on a site like AVS than any other. Many times people claim to have done a comparison where they mention faults that I know to not exist in a unit. AVS is where I read that the ML Prodigy had a lack of "openess," and other nonsense.
I'm a professional at this. It is my job to get people in the right gear FOR THEM. This has many times gone against my own opinion. However it is THEIR EARS, THEIR EYES, and THEIR HAPPINESS.
I'm a neutral guy, I want the best most possible recreation of what was originally intended. I'm looking for a lot of transparency.
Some are bass heads, some like dulled sounds of the high end, some like overly bright energetic sound.
The point is that it all comes down to the person's opinion. The bottom line is that these forums should be used to find out if a product is good quality. AVS is scary in that it gets a lot of people who have problems posting on it.
It is like my Xbox-360 I heard repeatedly that they had problems, went to forums and found tons of posts. I've not had one issue. I contacted the distributor and straight up asked about known returns, it was less than 2% which in this industry is exceptional. So I bought one.
My job is strictly to find what the person truly will get the most enjoyment out of, and put together that equipment with the synergy they would expect and blow them away. I've been doing it for awhile now, and I'm rather good at it.
However giving advice on a forum is HARD. I don't have music/movies to show on different setups to judge reactions. I honestly can't give out truly great advice on here. I can say what I love, but what I love may differ from your loves.