The Six Moons.com review on the Mhdt Labs Orchid DAC just went up

@teajay has been finding and telling us best price/performance equipments and yet he still get criticized for recommending a cheaper DAC with better performance. Hmmm OK:)

One thing I don’t understand why would Terry give false review for a company that is pretty small such as MHDT, Lab12?

Say these small companies pay him to do these reviews, how much they could pay? Let’s say MHDT gives the review sample to him for free, why would Terry replace his reference DAC with a cheaper model? He could still say good things about it but at least put the Orchid in his second system if he had to mention he keeps it.  

I am trying to understand but it just doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe I am naive. 

Now, if it was a bigger company say B&W, Sonus Faber, McIntosh, etc. it would make more sense. 

Terry used his Magnepans for like 10 years I think. Why wouldn’t he replace the Magnepans before? He used his Pass Labs for many years. Why wouldn’t he come up with a different amp to replace before? I cannot put the pieces together in the puzzle. 

@teajay I see no problem even if you receive the review sample for free AFTER you get to audition and love it enough to keep it. However, if you are given a free equipment in return for a positive review, then there is a problem. I think “some” people don’t think there’s a difference and again “some” people who know the difference think you do the latter.

Please keep finding killer products. When I buy a product for $1000 that surpasses 10 times more expensive products, I feel 10 times happier:)