Comments on: Consumer Reports – Still Clueless After All These Years

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:55:04 +0000

But I bet he had convinced himself that it sounded great.

Oh he did. That’s how I heard it. He gave me a ride so I could hear how awesome it was.

By: Hittman

Hittman — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:20:05 +0000

It was actually physically painful to listen to music in that car at any volume.

But I bet he had convinced himself that it sounded great.

Wny not put that speaker system in your PT Cruser? Then you could have the worst of all worlds.

By: Brian Stilson

Brian Stilson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:04:15 +0000

I would also like to mention that CR gave the 2002 PT Cruiser high ratings. In the four years I’ve owned it I’ve had to have the water pump replaced twice, as well as my entire steering rack. They should have tied Chrysler to AMC and shot them both. After every government bailout, the cars get even shittier!

By: Brian Stilson

Brian Stilson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:59:44 +0000

It’s funny you mention the “tinkle boomers” because I went to school with someone who applied this concept (in the extreme) to car audio. This was back in the late ’90s were everybody was getting those huge trunk subwoofers (without upgrading any of their other speakers of course). Anyway, this guy decided to take a trip to radio shack and get his own set of tinkle boomers for his dodge neon. In the back was featured an “Optimus” brand amp and dual 12″ subwoofers, and in the front on his front pillars were mounted the tinniest, harshest-sounding tweeters ever known to man.

And it sounded like shit. It was actually physically painful to listen to music in that car at any volume.

By: Hittman

Hittman — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:26:10 +0000

Advertising didn’t flood the mass media until 1936?

Wow. That’s just incredibly clueless.

By: Brian Riley

Brian Riley — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:25:42 +0000

This just in! Consumer Reports endorses Obamacare!

From Le.gal In.sur.rec.tion

Consumer Reports has decided to weigh in on the health care debate in favor of the Democratic health care proposals, or what CR euphemistically calls “health care reform.” Having decided to take sides, I think it is fair to hold CR to the standards it expects of the manufacturers and service providers reviewed monthly in its flagship magazine, and on its website.
Here is the mission statement of Consumers Union, the tax-exempt parent company of Consumer Reports:

Consumers Union (CU) is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves. The organization was founded in 1936 when advertising first flooded the mass media. Consumers lacked a reliable source of information they could depend on to help them distinguish hype from fact and good products from bad ones. Since then CU has filled that vacuum with a broad range of consumer information…

By: Hittman

Hittman — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:12:53 +0000

Yes, they did. And that’s SO important. Almost as important as KPD.

If you’re clueless about these important features, they’re explained in The QH Podcast “Audio Insanity.” http://www.davehitt.com/podcasts/index.html#Audio