from Mick
Chaps
I once met Mark Tucker when I was daft enough to attend a hifi show. I spent a couple of hours with him in the bar shifting whisky and beer. For those of you who do not know, Mark used to work at Naim in a senior managerial capacity.
Mark never objected to a competitors products being advertised or commented about on the Naim forum because as he said, in nearly every case, the Naim equivalent was better and it was always useful to know what Naim fans think of the competition, be it good or bad.
If you allow unrestricted comments on your own forum, it demonstrates confidence in your own product.
Regards
Mick
Mick I totally agree, i had comments removed, the email reply started with "look sweetie" i didn't read the rest!
The difference IMO is that the Naim forum will just ban anything not in line with what they want, part of me thinks ok so what, the other part of me think BS.
Like Bob I started my now Naim system with Radford HiFi in Bristol over 25 years ago, although not very well, I did know and meet JV on many occasions, the difference then was a kind confidence or even arrogance in a positive way, he'd say when mentioning another product "yeh bring it down I bet it sounds crap" or "yeh try it if you want we reckon ours is miles better"
Unfortunately for me at least, they are a different company now, its bit like a Mercedes forum banning someone because they find someone else's wheels better than stock
Martin