It amazes me how fast the DIY community will canonize anybody with some measurement gear, an opinion, and a webpage. All decisions become a function of how MegaMeasureGuy (MMG) rates a particular piece of gear -typically using only one criteria. Despite MMG's assertion that he doesn't think he's an expert, the community does. I'm sure that a bad opinion about the Megablow 230000 XS Mark II will provoke a pretty vile reaction from those who own it.

Maybe the gear doesn't have the best mega, supra, gamma electrogas -it doesn't necessarily mean it's crap. It doesn't mean it sounds bad either.

Part of the fun is trying stuff yourself and making your own judgments. If we all liked the same food, or the same woman, it would be a dull world. Why should we all like the same gear? Everybody wants to be reassured that they are buying the right gizmo. Why? Sometimes shit doesn't work out. So what?

I don't buy the cheapskate excuse either. Consider all the money you've spent on "bad" gear. Now think about:

• all the half full beers you left in bars, on end tables, in the backseat of your car
  
• all the women you pursued, wined & dined but didn't catch
  
• all the wasted buzz & nutrients when you hurled in the porcelain pagoda
• all the $5 coffees and $2 waters and $7 dogs and $5 popcorns at shitty movies & boring ball games
  

Kinda makes the "bad gear" money look trivial doesn't it?