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DreamDropDistancia t1_j1l44ku wrote

Reply to comment by elementIdentity in Most unreliable AMP I’ve ever owned - DROP THX AAA 789 by uqil

No, but reporting bias is, however, related to the total number of experiences/devices in the wild, in general.

So, if you have a very popular, very hyped, relatively inexpensive, "pretty much end-game" amp that, say, 100,000 people buy, and you compare it to an amp that only 10,000 bought, and 0.1% have problems, you might hear 100 bad stories of the popular device, and only 10 bad stories about the less common device.

So, let me ask you: do you know how many 789s are out there?

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elementIdentity t1_j1l5f77 wrote

There’s no way for me to know that. If I did and it turned out that only 1% of these amps failed, that would be good enough for me to take a chance. But we don’t know, and that’s why we can’t completely ignore negative experiences, especially when there’s no recourse.

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DreamDropDistancia t1_j1l9ri1 wrote

You don't have data to determine the scope/range of the data you do have... so you're just going to go ahead and take the data you do have as fact/the whole picture, and call it a day?

We don't know, therefore we should not accept the negative reviews as representative of a good cross section of the population.

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Anyway, the number is approx.15,600.

"22.7K requests·15.6k Sold·" -drop.com

So, if you've actually seen more than 156 reports of failure, then I guess don't buy one.

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elementIdentity t1_j1lab0w wrote

Yet OP is 0 for 2. I wonder if he reported it online the first time, since anyone with any problem posts on Reddit about it apparently.

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