No More Fake Reviews - So Who’s Gonna Tell Us What To Buy?


Very interesting and with a fairly profound impact on our audiophile community:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/08/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-rule-banning-fake-reviews-testimonials

Some strong language in the ruling. How are some of our YouTubers going to be able to sustain their channels without gifted products?

 

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Showing 6 responses by audition__audio

Yeah the late not so great H.P.  

What celtic66 said. Hey look we actually did something.

Yes if you must use reviews attempt to find a reviewer whose taste resembles your own. Harry Pearson kept equipment he liked for years and then returned it often beat to sh*t. 

No its just a witch hunt that will prove very difficult to enforce with the same pitfalls and inequalities experienced in other legal matters.

Curse the FTC and most other government entities. 

No industry accommodation does not taint a review. Any member of this forum could start a business related to our hobby and get this discount.

The real question is do the reviewers that claim they buy product at this reduced price actually paying this amount? Means reviewers like Fremer would have invested probably over $ 500K in their reference systems. Stereophile claims this is the only system used by their reviewers.

So the problem with the speakers was that they sounded awful or were too expensive? 

Difficult for me to imagine listening to a product over a period of weeks or months just to abandon the review. Might lead me to believe that after a quick listen, products that dont impress initially are quickly abandoned and possibly not given their due.