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What Hi-Fi? 2023 Awards are... 72% British.
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Without the aid of Martin Colloms, American high fidelity had no chance.
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I find What Hi-Fi to be the worst-of-the-worst, in the subjective rags.
They have mastered the job of writing 10 sentence "reviews" on a ton of audio gear which then gets cataloged by search engines for just about anything you look for. That has hugely increased their online ranking as noted earlier. We will have to catch up to them before calling our job "done."
Most of the recommended stuff is actually imported from SE Asia.We can't afford to import anything from elsewhere, taxes up the wazoo, so it follows that everything recommended is British. No patriotism involved, I assure you
You are wrong. There’s zero import duty for American or Chinese stereo equipment imported to UK.We can't afford to import anything from elsewhere, taxes up the wazoo, so it follows that everything recommended is British. No patriotism involved, I assure you
Check here or search gov.uk
The shipping costs are a killer. Duty was only ever about 3%
Plus State Sales Tax at its worst is less than half our 20% VAT
Seems both sides of the pond know how to buy a award
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Sure. But would you consider Dynaudio as a Chinese company the same way ? Or the ones in Harman group as Corean ? I personally wouldn't.
I meant a British company is "British" when headquarters are still based in UK, regardless of the place of manufacture or upper ownership.
Thanks for the input.
But, again... Is What Hi-Fi, considering the international audience, supposed to focus on the market for British consumers ? Why, then, are they showing product's MSRP in both £ & USD (even AUD sometimes) ?
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A Pox on ASR ... I used to look forward to these awards ... plan my fantasy system
Now, all that's just ruined... a veil has been lifted
Now, all that's just ruined... a veil has been lifted
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...And now they just drive the point home by mentioning only British speakers...Standmount Speakers : 7 out of 9 are from UK.
Q Acoustics, PMC and Bowers & Wilkins star in What Hi-Fi?’s 2023 speaker awards
What Hi-Fi? reveals the best speakers of 2023
www.whathifi.com
What's "intriguing" ? How the f**k there would be any "surprise" at all ?!? You are just discerning free "Awards" to your friends in the industry, who also are your direct customers for advertising purposes. Stop lying pretending it has been a thought competition, or I don't know what bullshit you've been used to tell for decades...
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I can't find anyone to buy any plain brown paper envelopes from, anywhere!
Until few years ago I would often get angry after reading something they made up.
It took me a while to figure that they don't deserve any feeling and much less any comments.
Participating in any "debate" with them just provide oxygen and publicity for them to survive.
It took me a while to figure that they don't deserve any feeling and much less any comments.
Participating in any "debate" with them just provide oxygen and publicity for them to survive.
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