Internet reviews are a really good way to identify some of the best, most consistently good-value products in almost any hobby or field. If you look at this sub, you would think there are only a dozen brands in the entire hardware industry (I even made a meme about it).
There is so much great gear out there that you will never find reading reviews and forums. Not that there’s anything wrong with LS50’s and Schiit and Topping and SVS and Monoprice. But I think we would all do ourselves a favor to try to listen to a wide array of equipment, especially used equipment, which is often fantastic and worth 10x its cost in sound quality.
Along those lines, I’ve thought of making high end speaker cables. I’d just need one of those sketchy ‘early internet’ websites and a few good reviews and as long as I sell one I’m in massive profit. I’d only be touting the same bullshit that anyone else selling £10k cables is doing.