Query about reveiws?

Hey whathifi team, no comments or opinions!!!

Sorry, only just seen this.

We list all our reference kit here. We also test with a range of price-comparable kit, as well as rival products, trying out all sorts of combinations to find out exactly what a product is capable of in different set-ups.

Hi Clare - given you place a lot of emphasis on listening to new kit when you review it I was suprised to see cassette type air conditioners in your listening rooms. I have never yet found one of these that did not make a noise, which I would have thought a distraction, when trying to hear the last tiny differences between two rival bits of kit?

We don't use them when we're testing! That's the first thing to get switched off before a test session (all sorts of lighting options, too).

But believe me, air con's very necessary for the rest of the time, especially this time of the year - get a lot of blokes lifting/setting-up heavy plasmas/speaker packages/receivers all day and it can get a tad, erm, earthy....

Thanks for the reply Clare, got some nice kit there, please can i have a rumage in that warehouse!!.

Just a quick question, are you going to change your reference cd player after the wonderful review the Cyrus got?

Alan

Hi Alan,

We're constantly re-evaluating our reference set-ups as new kit comes along, but I doubt we'll change much before the Award-judging season (which in itself involves unfeasible amounts of kit-swapping and interchanges) is through (late September).

However, because of that Awards judging, we are keeping a wide range of outstanding products close to hand for shootouts, reference and longer-term listening/viewing. A lot of work, but a lot of fun, too!