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Cathar · 11-19-2003, 03:00 PM

I've been waiting for a test-bed that I feel I can trust to measure things right. Sending off one's loved creation to review to most web-sites is like sending it off to a pack of monkeys to use their vast understanding of the theory of thermal dynamics to dictate where your product stands. Actually a pack of monkeys would be better because they couldn't type anything misleading and still be legible, although you might get some Shakespeare out of them.

I have a fear. I believe to the very core of myself in the Cascade, but I am terrified of some reviewer slapping it on wrong with a bad mount, or not reporting ambient and testing the Cascade during a hot day and testing another block on a cold night, or whatever.

If you want a good example of how silly some reviewers can be, then check this out:

http://www.ksbrainstorms.com/index.p..._H20_Power_Kit

Note, I have nothing against the product being reviewed, I'm purely talking about the quality of the review.

I know that the Cascade is expensive. I know that the rapidly falling US dollar value is making it look even more so, even at a time when the Cascade shipped to most countries in the world is quite closely priced (within 20%) to other blocks. It's just in North America that a largish pricing anomaly exists.

So I'm afraid of the measures that I simply have no control over.

Lately I've been having a stronger and stronger leaning to voluntarily sending a block off to review to JoeC at OC.com, as well as a Cascade SS, and again a special 4-of block (only 4 will be made) that I'm working on which IMO will demonstrate a new high-water-mark (no pun intended) in both performance and machining.

11-19-2003, 03:00 PM	#186
Cathar Thermophile Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,538	I've been waiting for a test-bed that I feel I can trust to measure things right. Sending off one's loved creation to review to most web-sites is like sending it off to a pack of monkeys to use their vast understanding of the theory of thermal dynamics to dictate where your product stands. Actually a pack of monkeys would be better because they couldn't type anything misleading and still be legible, although you might get some Shakespeare out of them. I have a fear. I believe to the very core of myself in the Cascade, but I am terrified of some reviewer slapping it on wrong with a bad mount, or not reporting ambient and testing the Cascade during a hot day and testing another block on a cold night, or whatever. If you want a good example of how silly some reviewers can be, then check this out: http://www.ksbrainstorms.com/index.p..._H20_Power_Kit Note, I have nothing against the product being reviewed, I'm purely talking about the quality of the review. I know that the Cascade is expensive. I know that the rapidly falling US dollar value is making it look even more so, even at a time when the Cascade shipped to most countries in the world is quite closely priced (within 20%) to other blocks. It's just in North America that a largish pricing anomaly exists. So I'm afraid of the measures that I simply have no control over. Lately I've been having a stronger and stronger leaning to voluntarily sending a block off to review to JoeC at OC.com, as well as a Cascade SS, and again a special 4-of block (only 4 will be made) that I'm working on which IMO will demonstrate a new high-water-mark (no pun intended) in both performance and machining.