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That's the plan, once my noise-sensitive neighbor is gone for the weekend. :) Here's an example of what the stock one sounds like if you're curious. https://ww

That's the plan, once my noise-sensitive neighbor is gone for the weekend. :) Here's an example of what the stock one sounds like if you're curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPaL0vfVwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPaL0vfVwU

jacquesm 11y ago
The problem with promoting the product that you review is that your review skews towards the superlative approval. If you reviewed it without the affiliate link you might have added more balance to the article. That's a real risk when you're trying to make money of the things that you review and I don't know of a good way to both 'maximize your take' and 'be objective' at the same time. If I ever reviewed a product I would definitely not try to make money of that particular product.
- cushychicken 11y ago
  That's fair. I have some experience in manufacturing engineering; in retrospect, I got a little too excited about how it was designed to be put together in mass quantities. After rolling it around in my hands for a few weeks, I've noticed a few warts in the circuit board - extra flux around the solder pads, a PCB throughhole that was a little too close to the board edge, and got a little shorn when the PCB was milled out, other little things like that. In all honesty, there's nothing really superlative about the electronics themselves. The JRC4558 is a really, really old opamp. It was brand new around the time The Who were getting airlifted to Woodstock. I shot you an email about some of the other aspects of the article that I didn't want to write about in open air. Check your inbox!
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    Hm, I did and there is nothing in it, let me dig into spamassassin and see if it got dumped for some reason. Ok, checked the spam. Nothing. Did you spell it right? jacques@mattheij.com
    - cushychicken 11y ago
      This apparently got stuck in my "Outbox" folder, so it never got sent. I'll pass it along tonight - this is turning into one of those workdays that became really busy all of a sudden.
    - cushychicken 11y ago
      Email sent! Talk to you soon.

jacquesm 11y ago

The problem with promoting the product that you review is that your review skews towards the superlative approval. If you reviewed it without the affiliate link you might have added more balance to the article. That's a real risk when you're trying to make money of the things that you review and I don't know of a good way to both 'maximize your take' and 'be objective' at the same time. If I ever reviewed a product I would definitely not try to make money of that particular product.

cushychicken 11y ago
That's fair. I have some experience in manufacturing engineering; in retrospect, I got a little too excited about how it was designed to be put together in mass quantities. After rolling it around in my hands for a few weeks, I've noticed a few warts in the circuit board - extra flux around the solder pads, a PCB throughhole that was a little too close to the board edge, and got a little shorn when the PCB was milled out, other little things like that. In all honesty, there's nothing really superlative about the electronics themselves. The JRC4558 is a really, really old opamp. It was brand new around the time The Who were getting airlifted to Woodstock. I shot you an email about some of the other aspects of the article that I didn't want to write about in open air. Check your inbox!
- jacquesm 11y ago
  Hm, I did and there is nothing in it, let me dig into spamassassin and see if it got dumped for some reason. Ok, checked the spam. Nothing. Did you spell it right? jacques@mattheij.com
  - cushychicken 11y ago
    This apparently got stuck in my "Outbox" folder, so it never got sent. I'll pass it along tonight - this is turning into one of those workdays that became really busy all of a sudden.
  - cushychicken 11y ago
    Email sent! Talk to you soon.