DCS Sending Legal Notice To Reviewer (Golden Sound) Over an Old Review of Their Bartok DAC


I saw this You Tube video which was posted by Headphones.com which at the beginning talked about the site taking the side of Golden Sound (GS) & then GS himself going through the details of what happened (his side of the story).

https://youtu.be/R7NxRFT6FiI

While I am not taking any sides until DCS comes out with their story publicly. While we all are aware that many times companies force reviewers to remove the criticism of their products by employing different ways. But what should be the way forward about the reviews for reviewers and companies?

Can we as the end consumers and as a community come-up with the framework around reviews?

 

Regards,

Audio_phool

audio_phool

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I watched the video of Andrew Lissimore, CEO of Headphones.com and watched Cameron provide details about dCS' actions in response to his review of the dCS Bartok.

I'm a longtime owner of dCS products including a full Paganini stack and currently a Rossini Apex DAC and a Rossini Clock.

My impression of dCS' reaction to Cameron's review of the Bartok is that dCS has dominated the digital world for decades and are now frightened they're losing their dominant position largely due to the plethora of digital product options we have.

I've never heard of Cameron before this incident, but we need more reviewers like Cameron that have an incredible depth of knowledge re: the design and execution of audio components.  Cameron's honesty and transparency is a welcome site as he was quick to post a correction to the mistake he made re: dCS use of a 10MHz clock.  He corrected this in his post by stating dCS uses a Word Clock which he seems to consider is a better option.

We have far too may unqualified reviewers that get a YouTube channel and know absolutely nothing about the internals of what they're reviewing.  So, let's not penalize reviewers like Cameron that are actually qualified to inform us of reasons we night be hearing things due to the design of the electronics and their relationship to the various graphs he provides.

Message to dCS.  Perhaps you should consider spending less effort on legal threats and more effort on R&D.