Is your knowledge your 2 cents or based on your actual findings via testing? Is there a reason your clients and publications don't do in house testing? What testing company do you work for or is that not something you don't want to share?
Our $0.02..
Is based upon
real world testing, for measuring specifications we use an Audio Precision(Cascade 2) so we can run the audio measurements in about 10 minutes for an AVR. We also do S/W evaluation, check for HDMI interoperability between products, and then communicate our findings and input to the sponsoring design/production teams in the Far East. We have been doing this for many years plus running an CEDIA certified AV install biz as well. In fact we recently sat down and calculated how many brands/AVRs we have been associated with and stopped counting @ 10 Million..
So yes we know which product meets specs and which ones tend to fib..
This process puts us into direct contact both with the design and production teams in the Far East. Though we do projects for different brands who are direct competitors, we keep our findings confidential to protect the innocent..
Frequently we will disclose certain obeservations about specific brands/products but only in general terms... As obviously we have to respect each brands reputation/image.
Just my $0.02...
