Booted from UA discussion on purple site...lol

Sad.

I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say that certain brands pay for preferential treatment.

There are also sock puppets and paid shills for certain brands. They pay users with older accounts to hype their junk.

Now go post your same concerns over at the UAD forum, and see what happens. The fanbois over there will beat you to death with your own shoes...

I would have no problems telling someone to shove it.

And of course your more expensive, because bro you’re worth it😎

I don't see a lot of the experienced people I liked to read posts from on there much anymore. All these paid posters make it tough to trust much anyway. But I don't really go by recommendations much anymore. If someone points out objective flaws, that's what I really take into account. Forums like GS and Head-Fi are in the business of getting people to "chase the dragon" of some notion of perfect sound by spending thousands every year on new products. The truth is, you don't need all these new products if you understand fundamentals and have some basic things that function properly. As a listener, you can get a lot of quality out of a tiny Sansa clip because of how well it measures. Head-Fi will have you buying all sorts of amps, dacs, etc trying to find a combination where one cancels out the flaws of the other aka "synergy". The whole "sounds like hardware" thing is kinda misnomer. I've been doing tests to see what I can come up with using whatever plugin versions I have vs the hardware counterparts and the results are really interesting. Some things are easier to achieve with plugins. VSM-4 is a big leap in quality over the VSM-3 and stacks up pretty well against the VSM-2. I still need the whole lot of the Fusion plugins, so I'm just using the stereo imager and nothing else. Seeing if I can swap in other stuff for Violet, the HFC, and the Transformer. The green Shadow Hills still has a lot of that sound signature even if it's not as exciting as the hardware.

These companies should be working with the right people to make the products function correctly in the first place instead of paying people to lie for them and getting people booted from threads. Maybe they think if they keep selling malfunctioning plugins that users will keep buying more plugins to compensate for the problems introduced by the broken stuff. Just as a lot of people end up doing things to try and compensate for truncation noise caused by not dithering. It's a big game to keep people in the dark on how stuff works so that they will believe the answer is to always buy more stuff.

While GS is a great archive of older posts, yes most of the experienced pro’s have been run off by the circle jerk of BS. Nothing like some snot nose influencer telling you how that you should be using some plugin instead of that hardware you used on that #1 album.
You get so big it all becomes a BS factory.

*Bows* Goodnight!  To quote George Carlin, “Take care of yourselves, and take care of someone else.”

dang makes me wish I hadn't left the site 🤣

They deleted my comment as well. Whoever is sh!t posting from the UA account is a genuinely terrible person; a smug, crass corporatist. I can not imagine 'the business' knows how their rep is acting.

I mostly use the purple site to stay abreast of new launches, read olde historical gear descriptions and preach to the choir about Coil. It's getting quite tiresome though.