{"id":28,"date":"2019-08-06T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:52:54","slug":"about-contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/about-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"About\/contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-28695275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-28695275.jpg 518w, http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-28695275-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-28695275-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/>Cascadia Summit covers news and reviews of interesting and affordable hi-fi equipment; it is aimed at anyone striving for better sound quality from modern music, at home or on the go. It is especially aimed at readers who like to think.<\/p>\n<p>Cascadia Summit\u00a0 is NOT pay-to-play. We do not do sponsored content. If we deem it sufficiently interesting, we\u2019ll cover it.<\/p>\n<p>Writers published in these pages are guaranteed to have no direct (or indirect) financial affiliation with any hi-fi or audio equipment manufacturer\/distributor\/retailer. That means no writer has a (secret) side gig as a PR representative, a show organiser, a product photographer or a Saturday audio store helper.<\/p>\n<h2>What else can I expect from a Cascadia Summit review?<\/h2>\n<p>Reviews are written from a consumer perspective \u2013 <em>subjective<\/em>\u00a0<em>listening<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 with the aim of unearthing how something sounds (and the emotional response it solicits) and delivering the results in an entertaining way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One process fundamental to the Cascadia Summit review M.O. is comparative listening. <em>\u201cWhat does X sound like?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0moves to\u00a0<em>\u201cHow does X compare to Y?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 it\u2019s the most commonly asked question by readers of ANY website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-723985689234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"934\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-723985689234.jpg 934w, http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-723985689234-300x128.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-723985689234-768x327.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture-723985689234-769x328.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What won\u2019t I see in your reviews?<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo things:<\/p>\n<p>1) Measurements. We don\u2019t have the budget to undertake them. End of story.<\/p>\n<p>2) Reviewer clich\u00e9s.<em>\u00a0\u201cCompetes with products two or three times the price\u201d<\/em>\u00a0is a no-no unless the competing hardware is called out explicitly. And does the audiophile world need yet another dose of,\u00a0<em>\u201cListening to Norah Jones, I was immediately struck by a sense of\u2026\u201d<\/em>. No, it does not.<\/p>\n<p>Talking of which\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[ninja_form id=1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cascadia Summit covers news and reviews of interesting and affordable hi-fi equipment; it is aimed at anyone striving for better sound quality from modern music,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cascadiasummit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}