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To address your issue, we can simply accept that certain information cannot ever be available day and date. The best results I've ever got from Google is by doi

To address your issue, we can simply accept that certain information cannot ever be available day and date. The best results I've ever got from Google is by doing > site:reddit.com <QUERY> If I want to know about headphones, or TVs, I'll find better answers in the sidebar than anywhere else on the Internet. But, I will not be able to find those quality answers until a reasonable period of time has passed where products can be tried and reviewed by real people. The issue is the immediacy. We want answers now, but we won't ever have them until later. This requires a cultural shift in consumerism that companies will not like: "Wait and see." The same problem happens for people pre-ordering video games that end up releasing in a state of complete trash. You can only get reliable information once the early adopters have tested it. If you are an early adopter, you are shit out of luck, but you are doing the rest of us a service that we appreciate greatly.

nucleardog 5y ago
I do the same reddit.com trick, but for TVs and headphones (and anything else they cover), I can wholeheartedly recommend rtings.com. They're in Montreal. They buy their products retail. They get their funding through subscriptions and affiliate links. Overall ratings are formulaic based on measurements applicable to the category. The formulas are available on the site. So are all the test designs. They're surprisingly thorough too--when I was shopping for some over-ear headphones I really appreciated that they measured the clamping force (when you wear glasses, something that clamps onto the arms too hard gets really uncomfortable pretty quickly) and breathability (temperature differential between your ears and ambient when wearing the headphones). These are pretty important for all-day comfort but don't really factor in most of the time. Their methodology is all available: Breathability: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/breathability https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/breathability Clamping Force: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/comfort#comparison_7849 https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/comfort#compa...

nucleardog 5y ago

I do the same reddit.com trick, but for TVs and headphones (and anything else they cover), I can wholeheartedly recommend rtings.com. They're in Montreal. They buy their products retail. They get their funding through subscriptions and affiliate links. Overall ratings are formulaic based on measurements applicable to the category. The formulas are available on the site. So are all the test designs. They're surprisingly thorough too--when I was shopping for some over-ear headphones I really appreciated that they measured the clamping force (when you wear glasses, something that clamps onto the arms too hard gets really uncomfortable pretty quickly) and breathability (temperature differential between your ears and ambient when wearing the headphones). These are pretty important for all-day comfort but don't really factor in most of the time. Their methodology is all available: Breathability: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/breathability https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/breathability Clamping Force: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/comfort#comparison_7849 https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/comfort#compa...