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The kind of review you're looking for is what Consumer Reports is, (or at least used to be, as I'm not sure of the current state of things,) famous for. Becaus
by ChainOfFools 3y ago
The kind of review you're looking for is what Consumer Reports is, (or at least used to be, as I'm not sure of the current state of things,) famous for.
Because it's a paid subscription, and all of the items they review are actually purchased from retail suppliers who have no knowledge that Consumer Reports is the buyer, they can take their time and do very thorough comparisons incorporating tests of real world usability and reliability that are difficult to tabulate and instead have to reviewed like a movie or a book. But I don't know, it's likely the consumer reports type of shopper is such a minor fraction of the market that isn't worth optimizing for them any more.
- voisin 3y agoFor those who don’t want to pay, many libraries allow free digital access to Consumer Reports.
- Terretta 3y ago> For those who don’t want to pay For those who wish Consumer Reports didn't have the money to buy the products they test and depended on advertising and payola inevitably gaming the reviews instead... Arguably advertising destroyed the microwave ... and everything else.
- 1123581321 3y agoYou can usually stop by and flip through the buying guide index, too.
- thayne 3y agoThe problem with consumer reports is I only need it every once in a while, so it isn't really worth paying a continual subscription for.
- _dark_matter_ 3y agoI do it anyways, because I need them the most on expensive things, so my subscription evens out. But they do have common household items as well.
- huytersd 3y agoI get one and split it with my whole extended family.
- ww520 3y agoLibraries have their subscription.
- hyeonwho22 3y agoI got a CR subscription to look at air filters. For good air filtering you really only need a hepa filter ($20) in front of a fan ($20), but CR only analyses the performance of brand name products ($200).
- xapata 3y agoNot exactly. To be comparable to the good air filter products, you'd want to build a cube of air filters and attach the fan so it pulls air through the cube. Fun DIY project, but it's not for everyone. There's a good YouTube video for it.
- alister 3y agoThe DIY cube air filter even has its own Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi–Rosenthal_Box https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi–Rosenthal_Box
- az226 3y agoNext time try your library. Many offer free access over the web.
- NLips 3y agoFor best filtering, place the filter so air is “sucked” through by the fan, rather than “pushed”. (Quite possibly what you meant; I just found “in front of” easy to interpret in either way)
- mrob 3y agoHEPA filtration only matters if you have a clean side and a dirty side. Most air filters exhaust clean air into the same room as the intake, so all that matters is clean air delivery rate [0]. It's often possible to get better clean air delivery rate using higher flow through a less restrictive non-HEPA filter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_air_delivery_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_air_delivery_rate
- bsilvereagle 3y ago