dunnersfella said: Sound United have a very active marketing team on AVSForum and What HiFi right now (amongst others), so press releases and paid features about products / updates come thick and fast. I'm certainly not against AVSForum making bank! But I would say that not all news is relevant and press releases need to be clearly expressed as such + interpreted by readers as such.

We don't want bias.





Although, that's clearly too late for What HiFi... Click to expand...

Nobody is paying to get press releases posted on AVS Forum (I know you did not claim that, but worth mentioning).You'll recognize "paid features" i.e. sponsored posts because they are tagged as such. For example last year there were some IMAX Enhanced-sponsored posts that included Denon and Marantz gear, but fwiw IMAX was the sponsor there, not Sound United. There have not been any recent sponsored posts from Sound United that I am aware of.One thing about press releases... I will not rewrite them anymore. A lot of sites just rewrite the release and post it as "news." But that strikes me as a waste of time and a good way to make mistakes while leaving out relevant info. So instead I post the entire press release and label it as such, clearly.It is of course up to the reader to understand that a press release for a product is not a review.Anyhow, Denon and Marantz are top AVR brands, both here and in the world in general. So it's only natural that they will receive coverage whenever news about them comes up.