Have your say & ask the experts

Solomon1:

JoelSim:

I think that it's fine that people have strong opinions, especially about their own kit. After all that's why we're all here. I just think it's a bit too much when someone blatantly uses the forum to get across commercial messages to people who are requesting advice.

Joel, please calm down. For someone working in advertising, you sure have a chip on your shoulder when strong advertising language is used outside it's designated advertising space. If you're so concerned with our clear judgement, why not tell us of some insider marketing techniques and tactics...I think it would make an informing and entertaining read.
Personally, I can heartily recommend the following documentary: The century of the self.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151&ei=wqmDSKP1NouOigLC4NCpCw&hl=nl

timwileman:

apples are good for you, an apple a day keeps the dentist away....i dont eat an apple a day and my teeth are rubbish so we have proof :-)

Desperate - how? Just a perfectly civil question to Ashley, which I feel warrants an equally straightforward answer.

And yes, we could buy them, but shouldn't have to - if a manufacturer is so proud of their products, surely they're confident enough to have them tested (especially as we loved the original ADM9s).

I'd also rather use our kit-buying budget for more mainstream products far more of our readers are interested in.

And i'm not sure what you mean by 'ethos'? If it makes a sound or shows a picture, it's pretty much in our testing remit these days! We've got a Group Test of Active Speakers in our new issue out this Thursday, for example.

Clare Newsome:

Desperate - how? Just a perfectly civil question to Ashley, which I feel warrants an equally straightforward answer.

And yes, we could buy them, but shouldn't have to - if a manufacturer is so proud of their products, surely they're confident enough to have them tested (especially as we loved the original ADM9s).

I'd also rather use our kit-buying budget for more mainstream products far more of our readers are interested in.

And i'm not sure what you mean by 'ethos'? If it makes a sound or shows a picture, it's pretty much in our testing remit these days! We've got a Group Test of Active Speakers in our new issue out this Thursday, for example.

Andrew Everard:

You do read some very strange things into some comments on this forum, don't you?

JohnDuncan:

Understand where you're coming from, but think it's a bit unfair, if you bear in mind the usual tone of conversations here - it was a straightforward request, which appears to have been blithely ignored. If I were Ashley, and believed in my product as much as he does, I'd be driving a pair to Teddington myself (he can pop a pair round to my house at the same time - I mean if you can demo them to drummerman...........)

... nasty little man

We're all on the same side, aren't we? What I'd like to know is: what is the relationship between Ashley and drummerman? They must know each other pretty well - well enough to envite a forum member for a personal demo. If so, then, from what I've read, drummerman is helping to promote that product.

Sorry, but the whole thing sounds a bit fishy. Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick?!