Here's another scam- folk on FB audio pages, pimping gear, then having other fake profiles hype it up. I see this all the time, mostly with Chijunk amps and tubes.
E.g. "hey have you seent the MUZik 401 amp? I just got one and it's running these tubes and it just kicked my (McIntosh, Cary..) amp out of the house." then another will chime in, shortly after and say "oh yeh, that's a great amp, I'm running mine with Shugang.. yes I agree, Chinese gear is really coming up". I read one who stated "there's no difference to my ears between XYZ monos and the Pass monos. I have them both and don't use the Pass anymore..". They circle jerk it for a few days and start over with another amp, tube, preamp.
Similarly, many 'pro-reviews' won't say anything bad about anything "everything is awesome all of the time, buy it" and they tend to spit the same babble but at least there, you can read their other reviews and sometimes get to the core of the review..
E.g. "hey have you seent the MUZik 401 amp? I just got one and it's running these tubes and it just kicked my (McIntosh, Cary..) amp out of the house." then another will chime in, shortly after and say "oh yeh, that's a great amp, I'm running mine with Shugang.. yes I agree, Chinese gear is really coming up". I read one who stated "there's no difference to my ears between XYZ monos and the Pass monos. I have them both and don't use the Pass anymore..". They circle jerk it for a few days and start over with another amp, tube, preamp.
Similarly, many 'pro-reviews' won't say anything bad about anything "everything is awesome all of the time, buy it" and they tend to spit the same babble but at least there, you can read their other reviews and sometimes get to the core of the review..
