When Audio Reviews Face Legal Threats: dCS vs. GoldenOne

As someone working at headphones.com and colleague to Cameron for the last few years, I imagine dCS is looking quite closely at all the places talking about the video plus with the sword of litigation hovering over one's head, I won't say too much but my recent experience.

Working in the customer side of headphones.com, we did receive a ton of positive emails and messages in support of Cameron and I would like to say thank you to everyone who has been sending the positive messages our way. Resolve has posted and asked those thinking of confronting dCS at CanJam London or sending messages to direct dCS employees, please refrain from doing so.

Speaking on my end doing CS for various companies for over the past decade, never nice receiving strays in any capacity. dCS made their reply and we have posted ours linked earlier in the thread. Seeing the video has spread quite far around the internet and seeing positive support has been heartwarming. Makes me happy to be a part of the community where we can collectively come together to call out companies for such practices.

 

A small but slowly shrinking world. When I was with an audio club, I get told here and there of another member dying. I was the younger member of the bunch by far.

 

Funny thing, that enmity between GS and Amir; apparently Amir is backing up Cameron(At around 19:00 in the youtube video.) Weird times.

Edit, That was kinda already mentioned.

 

The skeptic in me wants to play the "no such thing as bad publicity card" and that this is all a big wash to get their names propped up in (social) media. Up until now I've had zero inkling on anything dCS has done, and now I feel dragged into it only slightly because of this brouhaha, but my senses are coming back and I feel like I should just go back to ignoring this like everything else.

 

Definite scrambling for crumbs on the Titanic deckchairs while Rome burns vibes

Then again, ORFAS likes paying one person to do everything.

Someone can correct me but don't see that dCS actively drew attention to themselves until after Cameron revealed the legal threat. I think near all of their communication was over private channels.

 

Edit: This one is a 30-bit.

 

Yeah but playing dumbass's advocate for a minute I can see how anything but effusive praise for the Bartok at its MSRP (GBP 12,500, holy crud) might not be as inspiring of confidence among buyers— at that level of gear buyers will definitely be wanting validation, no?

It's definitely a massive overreach especially considering the review was published back in 2021; no clue what the hell went through their team's collective head.

 

English libel law is different in unpleasant ways. Just sayin' (and again, IANAL)

 

Well now that just begs the question... do the drapes match the carpet?

 

dCS - do cunty shit

 

But they had to realize that a legal threat against an internet "influencer" would result in the threat being made public? Or are they that stupid?

 

Hasn’t reached the country clubs, yet.

 

For sure. That I have to assume they knew and intended to be public. If we are to take the dCS version of events, after 2.5 years of perceived insults they felt their only recourse was to slap Cameron with their glove and demand satisfaction. But I don't think prior to that they wanted to "go loud."

 

I feel strongly that when it comes to customer relationships and product integrity, it is not true that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

 

https://dcs.community/t/goldensound-headphones-com-dcs-an-update/6740

Good news, dCS has issued a new statement and apologized for their previous statement and any factual errors made.

Hope that is the end of this saga and again on a personal level I would like to say thank you to the entire community who supported GoldenSound and headphones.com throughout all of this. You guys rule.

 

It looks like Alissa Heinerscheid is now working for dCS. Because they are begging to be the Bud Light of audio.