Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama

@2psyop I couldn't disagree more, based on what I have read. Tekton had provoked it, people (here) have been reasonable and pretty soft on Tekton. He kept throwing rocks at the window until he broke it and he didn't stop there, he went around the house and broke all the windows. We are just acknowledging it.  

@kykat 

he has a point and some good reviews of BS reviewers. It's amazing that Erin got in trouble for objectivity while these 300K subscriber reviewers have so little substance, you can have a drinking game for middle schoolers every time the reviewer says anything useful.

I am so not surprised after reading the tekton guy's bullying comments in the other thread. Erin should have started a gofundme for the legal fees. He is really sane and objective and as hard working as anyone I know. 

it's the Barbara Streisand effect. If you want to be talked about for the wrong reason, make scene, throw a fit. 

@thecarpathian +1

@james633 

I would too but it's closed

having read and catalogued 97 speaker manufacturers' stories, I feel for them. This is not an easy ride. But I were in the business, I would be happy if someone reviewed my product and I would learn from the feedback. It's like the movie Chef - focus on your craft, not on attacking the reviewer.

my 2 cents to Tekton: stop posting, talking, messaging, communicating about it.

It will go away - make speakers not war

since Erin's character has been a subject here, let me contribute. When I finished my speaker web site (a hobby and nothing more) I reached out to about 6 hifi/audiophile youtubers to ask if they had any feedback, would they used it for their research, etc. Nobody responded. I usually resend my emails once. Still no response. One had obviously reviewed it and used my lines from it in his next review - at least I knew he saw it. Erin was the 7th, I found his channel a few weeks later. He responded the same day, and gave me a lot of feedback, links and a contact I was happy to use. I have no idea who he is, where he is, I watched about 12 of his videos and enjoyed them all, and I sure know he is different, not a egoistic type A media star but a nerd with a big heart. I don't want to mention names of the ones who ignored me, but none of their reviews amount much beyond entertainment whereas Erin's reviews aim and reach much higher.

It's unfortunate that when someone is objective, he gets attacked, whereas all the wishy-washy, full of disclaimers, shiny, useless reviews live happily ever after.

@johnk the problem is that it's Tekton's own doing, not upset audio geeks'. He keeps digging in, keeps arguing, coming up with awkward excuses (litigation is two lawyers having a friendly talk) and keeps this issue alive instead of just walking away from the mic. He himself blew it up. Erin didn't, the forums and other reviewers didn't, it burns everyone. An awkward lose-lose situation that nobody enjoys talking about. Tekton speakers are good value, some people love it, some don't, that's what should matter. Nobody should have ever learned about his personality. 

that email from Tekton was wild. The damage was done. Mea Culpa? Non-negotiable? This is bullying, period.

I do not wish Tekton, its employees to lose any business because of this, but if they did, had, it’s not the reviewers' fault. The silver lining is the lesson in communication for all sides.

@nonoise :)

@wesheadley you analogy is way off and misses pretty much everything in what went down. I suggest you watch Erin’s second review. This is NOT what happened at all.

Tekton lost business because of his bullying and continued threats. Which did not start now, he has been throwing the ketchup bottle at the wall here too way before the Erin review. He may be good at speaker design but not at PR (big word for don’t be a bully)

@dz13 I once was cheated out of 20K in a real estate transaction and I soon found out that if I don't have another 20K to lose/give to lawyers, it's all good money after bad. Something wrong with that picture/system. Just like small claims court, you can win and then fold paper planes from the judge's order.

@dz13 I didn't know about the judges' hands on or hands off point, thanks for your insight! I guess in dictatorships the rich buy the judge and the system, in democracies they buy  the lawyers who figure out how to play the system (like the guy going to court in NYC tomorrow)

@ozzy62 seriously? Have you spent the last 8 years in a cave?

If I had done 1/10th in my entire life of what he does every week, I’d be locked up for good. He evades the law any which way he pleases.

Yeah, I guess it's off topic

I thought it was creepy. Well made but disturbing