One company which CAN sell the whole line and folks buy... Is McIntosh. Plenty or dentists, doctors and lawyers have all MAC systems.
My problem with reviews is they never compare anything. Some guy was 'up in arms' because I refused to (formally I guess,) review a product (just for his pleasure) but to me, without other equally valued products to compare it to... No way can I state much about the one I own except. I like it. And that is a fact for all the magazine reviewers too. Maybe they think it will alienate manufacturers? But a shootout is the only way to compare stuff .And in more than one person's home! So to do a real review, one would need several equal items, and at least two separate listening rooms with really sorted high end stuff. Maybe even multiples of electronics. The Reviewer 1 gets the test items for a few months, then the second. They each write up their own reviews. published at the same time. They would have to pay those guys a lot more... And as Stereophile does, do tests and publish them too.
My problem with reviews is they never compare anything. Some guy was 'up in arms' because I refused to (formally I guess,) review a product (just for his pleasure) but to me, without other equally valued products to compare it to... No way can I state much about the one I own except. I like it. And that is a fact for all the magazine reviewers too. Maybe they think it will alienate manufacturers? But a shootout is the only way to compare stuff .And in more than one person's home! So to do a real review, one would need several equal items, and at least two separate listening rooms with really sorted high end stuff. Maybe even multiples of electronics. The Reviewer 1 gets the test items for a few months, then the second. They each write up their own reviews. published at the same time. They would have to pay those guys a lot more... And as Stereophile does, do tests and publish them too.