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> Yet they berate the owners claims of his tweaks, wires etc as being
> "snake oil!" So they will highly recommend their CDs, but will not
> recommend anything else that they offer.

> That doesn't make sense to me?????? If you read the cataloge Mapleshade
> mails out the man who's making the recording says these are the tweaks
> that I use when recording. You agree he makes wonderfully high quality
> CDs & LPs yet write of his stated reasons for obtaining these recordings
> as "snake oil" because you don't agree with the tweaks, while admiting he
> makes great recordings?

> Now if that isn't assinine I don't know what is.

Your reasoning that because the CDs are good therefore all the products are good is foolish.

I do not know the man nor am I able to judge the merits of his CDs in terms of artistic or production quality. Setting aside my doubts for arguments sake, lets assume the quality is excellent, the man has a passion for the music but the CDs do not make enough money for him to pay the rent and his kids school fees.

Selling high profit margin products that benefit from the association with the CDs would be one way to stay in a business he is passionate about. Obviously it is not possible for a small part time enterprise working on the side to sell real audio products at high profit margin but it is possible to sell "snake oil" so long as you are prepared to make the compromises. If you do so then your credibility will be lost with the mainstream and so in for a penny, in for a pound. You might as well tell real porkies like speaker cables and speaker stands make more difference than the active device if it helps sales.

Do you believe promotional material about a product is going to be honest and impartial or is it shifted in favour of putting the product in a good light? If the latter where is the line drawn for big established companies and small one man enterprises with nothing to lose?

Why if these high profit margin audio products work as claimed don't the big established companies step in and make enormous profits?

Do you see all this but suppress it in order to find things to support what you would like to believe or do you simply not see it at all?

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