dave weil wrote:

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:47:48 -0400, Howard Ferstler
wrote:

3. Perks. Yep, I get accommodation prices on the gear I
review.

So basically it's just ad copy. Cool gig indeed. Of course, it has
about the same level of integrity.

Read some of the reviews. Nobody gets a free ride from me,
and I do go over the performance aspects pretty well and
manage to do some rather original evaluating.

However, I do make a point of reviewing stuff that is at
least good, which saves me a lot of grief. Well, almost at
least good. I have done a few sour-note reviews on products
that were not so hot. Even have done that with speakers, and
of course there is the commentary article that Fred Davis
and I did on wires and line conditioners in issue 89 of TSS.

Howard Ferstler