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Re: Agree. Trial and conviction might be a tad premature.

> No names, no rebuttal or statement from the other "U.S. magazine",
> no statement from the cable maker.

Actually, the cable "maker" was telling all and sundry about what had
happened at the recent CES.

> Can Charles or anyone from S'phile even state with certainty that no
> action -- other than reimbursing the cable manufacturer -- was taken
> by the mag the reviewer works(ed) for?

At CES, the reviewer concerned told anyone who would listen that it
was his friend who had sold the cables, not him. The manufacturer
concerned is the one who is telling people that he was reimbursed by
the publisher. But whether or not the reviewer is still working for
the magazine in question, that remains to be seen.

Regarding the anonymity, I regret that this is necessary. I wait to
see if the magazine's editor is going to publicly address this matter.

My point is that according to the tale told by the aggrieved
manufacturer, there appears to be a possible breach of ethics by a
writer for a magazine not Stereophile. Yet contrary to the endless
accusations of improper behavor that are leveled at Stereophile on
a continuous basis without any basis in fact, all you people are
bending over backward not to accuse this other magazine of anything
amiss. It seems that a double standard is in operation here.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile


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