Why all the Sony-bashing?

Posted by GJS [IP: 208.25.245.223] on June 28, 1999 at 18:56:13
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In Reply to: Why all the Sony-bashing? posted by Rob Loewy on June 28, 1999 at 15:52:31:

rob,

you're right in the fact that i am not familiar with the most recent line of sony ES products ... i can only speak from my own experience. my beef with sony is that (from my audio-selling experience) the sony receivers that we sold were inferior to most other manufacturers. their amplifiers were pretty puny and with no real power-supply. their "power cube" (as the audio critic refers to it) was pretty weak (from the puny power supply). the quality just didn't seem to be there. Certainly Sony can make a good product, but it's like they chose not to.

The same held true for a while in their car audio stuff too. they just went cheap, and rode their name recognition. their mini-systems sounded like toys as well.

in short, they seemed to dump quality in the amp and pre-amp sections, threw in a couple of dsp's to give people an "awe" factor, and rode name reconition.

i've not even touched a sony product in 4 years, so maybe they've changed... i might be all wrong... but their lack of quality and lack of attention to the sound they were trying to produce just rubbed me wrong.

(although i will admit that they probably make the best mass-market cheap cd-player.) (and best mass-market cheaper cassette player for that matter too.)

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