AVS Forum

I got this message "Your Notifications: 3", then this: "Your IP Address (###,###.###.##) is currently awaiting authorization to be enabled for the user (my user name)
Then this message: "Please check the email address associated with your account and click the authorization link.
Click Here to re-send the verification email." I did everything they asked, but I could never get through to them. The Contact will not work for me. It's as if I had the plague. How can I figure out to contact a real person to fix this?

Members parrot opinions of others. Most members have never seen or heard the products they discuss. Other members ask the same questions year end, year out but never buy anything. Guys are obsessed with calibration. They will mull over calibration settings for small, incremental gains. Mods will ban members with no explanantion. Members will bait other members into debates. Then run to mods to have said member banned once a debate gets heated.

AVS is terrible. The only people who like it are easily impressionable guys who are new to the audio video home theater market.

Gotta admit, I'm surprised to see the negative reviews. I've been using the site since the late 90's and have been a member since 2002. It's certainly had it's ups and downs. The biggest issue was the password reset issue from a couple years ago that accidentally locked some users out of their accounts. As for people ganging up and attacking? It's never happened to me in the 2 decades I've been on the site. For sure, there's a few people who are probably over zealous about their particular subject (BOSE is evil! More subwoofers always! Black levels in projectors is the most important thing ever!, etc.). Overall though, I've always had good luck in getting advice and just throwing in some of my own common sense for good measure. It's particularly useful in guidance for building your own theater in your home. That section of the site seems to have the most science and the least amount of ego.^_^

I rarely get any helpful advice from this site (there are times I do get some, but not often). They tend to be very opinionated and will argue with you if your opinion differs from their own, they tend to act as if their opinion isn't an opinion, but is a fact, most of the time I end up solving my own problem or when I do finally get a real answer, usually it's not a good one

Then, sometimes when you do solve your own problem (or make a decision about something) and go to tell them, they will still try to change your mind and try to get you to think your decision was a bad idea

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I certify that this review is based on my own experience and that I am in no way affiliated with this business, and have not been offered any incentive or payment from the business to write this review. I agree to Sitejabber's Terms & Conditions, including to not write false reviews, which is in many cases against the law.