Good, among the AQ faithful that will confirm that both you and Dr. Waldrep conspired to create the same video to mutually confirm each other and make them look bad.
Suspicion and skepticism are healthy. Cynicism is a minefield, and unjustified conclusions are — well you get the idea. Thank you that your suspicion being essentially written as such.
One can see in my letter on Stereophile.com, in my “open letter” and in several postings I made on page 3 of the comments, that ever since Mark Waldrep made the subject of this video fraud visible, that I have been operating under the assumption that in fact the video is fraudulent. The complete lack of cooperation from either the production house, or from their client (the dealer) has forced me to assume that Mark Waldrep’s results, and the results posted on this site, are in fact accurate — that they are truthful reporting.
Mark Waldrep has promised me a copy of the video (soon I hope), though I do not expect examination of the video to change my operative assumption, which is that both his and Amir’s investigations were honest, and that the only misbehavior on the part of some press has been to judge and condemn me on speculation. My thanks and congratulations to Mark Waldrep for taking a more professional approach than in some previous comments — it can be difficult not to let the most extreme and bitter of one’s own fans draw one in inappropriately.
Unfortunately, in the Audioholics thread on this subject, Audioholics themselves edited a quote taken from my “open letter” in order to turn it into a bald-faced lie. In my “open letter”, as posted on Stereophile.com, one can see that after first hearing the video, and my finding the audio “unbelievable,” that I asked for assurance as to the video’s honesty and veracity, and that AudioQuest was assured that the video was the truth. Audioholics might not believe me, there is no obligation for them to believe me, but that doesn’t give them the right to misquote me, significantly and libelously misrepresenting my statement. I’m not a politician who has to accept such treatment by other politicians
As AudioQuest had never conceived of the video, did not cause it to be created, was not a client and was not involved in any way in the production (except that obviously the video included capturing the presentation made by AudioQuest employee David Ellington), that was the end of the subject — until Mark Waldrep’s discovery.
AudioQuest never posted a link to the video on our website or on our Facebook page, or did anything to encourage any use of the video. It was most certainly neither created for or by AudioQuest, and most definitely never offered to other dealers — what a wild imagination the poster of a comment speculating of such on another site has, I bet there are still monsters under that fellow’s bed — though I truly respect that he said these were his suspicions. He did not make the mistake of presenting personal speculation as a fact.
The video was simply not ours, and was not suitable to be used by AudioQuest, even if it had been honestly produced. Only after Mark Waldrep discovered and publicized the apparent fraud, did I stomp my feet and ask for that which I had no control over, that the video be taken off the web. Trouble is, like Amir and Mark did, AudioQuest should have captured the video while we could — call us naive, expecting to be given the backdoor link we were promised.
With respect, Bill Low/AudioQuest
Posted for me because when I registered for this site, I didn’t receive the promised automatic email, and my filling in the Contact Us form twice has not yet yielded any reply.