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He gets paid to promote vendors, not specific brands or IEMs. He gets paid to contribute to developing some IEMs, but those are the ones he doesn't review or put on his ranking lists.
Saying he gets paid to keep specific IEMs at the top of his list is saying he is a shill and is deliberately lying to mislead readers. Is that what you are saying?
This is why I don't take his list too seriously.
I think what it boils down to is crinnacle values frequency response/graphs way, way more than things like timbre, technicalities, etc. Otherwise there's no way many of the rankings remotely make sense.
You really should remove this post ASAP. You can say what you want about his rankings, but to imply that his top spots are paid, in one of the biggest headphone forums, is 100% defamation and legally actionable (atleast in the US).
5 Elements of Defamation:
You should keep your dumbass comments to yourself.
What even.
1)I did not publish anything, neither do I have any solid evidence, it is purely speculation.
2)Largest headphone forums my ass. Barely 5000 people even saw it.
3)If anything, his image only got better, thanks to all the meat-riding crinarmy out there.
idk , he stated that Variation is better resolving than EXT and Tia Trio. I didn't own them at the same time to test them so I kinda assume that he's right.