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Title: Tesco £16.49 stereo voted best
Post by: Nickbat on 20 April 2009, 15:26:36
How about this for a shock!

http://www.avforums.com/forums/hi-fi-systems-separates/980369-16-49-tesco-stereo-voted-britains-best-sound-system.html

 :o :o :o :o ;D
Title: Re: Tesco £16.49 stereo voted best
Post by: STMO123 on 20 April 2009, 15:35:36
 They must be very easily pleased. ;)
Title: Re: Tesco £16.49 stereo voted best
Post by: mantahatch on 20 April 2009, 16:36:43
Can't say I am surprised, I think the vast majprity of people just want an item to function and be simple to use. A lot of manufacturers forget this.
Maybe one or two of them could learn a lesson from this.  :)

Mike
Title: Re: Tesco £16.49 stereo voted best
Post by: Ian_D on 20 April 2009, 16:52:31
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They must be very easily pleased. ;)
The problem is, if something’s dirt cheap, you expect it to be crap!

So if it works better than expected, then the item automatically becomes fantastic...10/10 etc

On the other hand, if you pay £££'s for something, you expect it to be the dogs balls! So if there’s a TINY little thing which you don’t like about it, even something stupidly minor, it no longer scores as high (if that makes sense).
Title: Re: Tesco £16.49 stereo voted best
Post by: Kevin Wood on 20 April 2009, 16:59:22
If I were looking for opinions on any sort of "Hi-Fi" I wouldn't be asking people who bought and are happy to listen to something costing £16.49 (nor £16k for that matter!).

Typical Daily Mail "Shock! Horror! - Journalist pulls headline out of own @rse!" story IMHO.

Also shows how big a pinch of salt is required when reading online review sites.

Kevin
Title: Re: Tesco £16.49 stereo voted best
Post by: STMO123 on 20 April 2009, 17:17:03
Yes. I agree with both of the above.
Title: Re: Tesco £16.49 stereo voted best
Post by: TheBoy on 20 April 2009, 18:00:15
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They must be very easily pleased. ;)
The problem is, if something’s dirt cheap, you expect it to be crap!

So if it works better than expected, then the item automatically becomes fantastic...10/10 etc

On the other hand, if you pay £££'s for something, you expect it to be the dogs balls! So if there’s a TINY little thing which you don’t like about it, even something stupidly minor, it no longer scores as high (if that makes sense).
I agree.

Being the eternal pessimist, I expect everything I buy to be shite, and get all pleasantly surprised when it does what it claims it does.  Hence why I think that little Epson printer of mine is the dogs danglies.  Obviously, for Sony, they never fail to not live up to my low expectations...