Bobalou said:
Han,
Chessrock may have been being overly discriptive in your eyes, but I think most of us who knows the RO site knew exactly what he was talking about...
.why dont you ask Kurt to choose between the $1700.00 JML 8 ch. pre or the $1400.00 Sebatron 4 ch. tube pre. both he says are in the API catagory as far as sound comparison, with the Seb having transparency by using tubes (go figure)...
bang for buck the JMl has to win (8 ch. verses 4 for a bit more money) garauntee the dude will never tell you to pick one over the other!..he'll advise you to buy both, how very realistic! sounds real worldish doesnt it? what a copout. the dude has no credibility. I respect a product reviewer much more if he comes out and says product A sucks orver product B or not holding a hidden agenda as not too offend a manufacturer thats in his pocket....
also that fool believes in not even reviewing a product unless its deemed "a quality piece" before he gets it. whats the point of a review then? ...If I only have $1400.00 to $1700.00 to spend on a "single" piece of gear that I cant get a hold of for testing, I want a reviewer to a honestly advise the better purchase and our boy Kurt will never be that truthful! its such obvious bull shit with him......Oh and Rod's a punk as well, dont let his tough guy persona fool you, he's a punk!
I know exactly what Chess is talking about and he certainly has a good point. There are a couple of weird things happening every now and then at RO, but the majority of the members and posters are okay. If moderaters and whoever runs the place act like fools, they will dig their own grave.
About the product reviews: IMHO 90% of the reviews I read are misleading , are beside the truth and biased most of the time.
Have you read a product review written by George Massenburg? Or by Bob Ludwig? Bob Katz perhaps? Those are the guys that know their shit. But the reviews I've read so far were most written by someone I'd never heard of, so I don't give much value for 'product reviews anyway. I order products from my regular gearpimp and if I don't like it I send it back. It's that simple.
But, my dear bro, the same happens here at HR dot com all the time. Some say microphone A (or B1

) is a big bang for the buck and some other say it sucks.
For a novice engineer this can be very confusing and I really don't like it at all. Of course YMMV, but sometimes I have the feeling that this bashing hasn't got anything to do with the mic in question, but more with the people who pimp it. And that ain't good at all. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I trust my feelings always.
Would someone like George Massenburg (for example) make a statement about a particular mic, you can 100% believe him.
But people like GM will never bash a product, get it?
About Rod: You say he's a punk? Explain why you make statements like that, because as far as I know Rod, he seems helpful, nice and humorous to me.
Peace, Han