Three reviewers, one bench

We publish under handles because two of us have day jobs at firms that would rather we did not review their competitors. Nobody here has ever been paid by a manufacturer, and the bench lives in a spare room in Dayton.

benchrat

Networking and anything with a power brick. Owns the spectrum analyser and the opinion that mesh kits are oversold to people with one floor. Reviewing since 2023.

lowpasslu

Audio. Ex live sound, allergic to the word “immersive”. Runs the coupler rig and insists on three units of everything before a score goes out.

sundeep-k

Home appliances, air, and anything that eats filters. Keeps the two-year cost spreadsheet that decides most of our price-honesty sub-scores.

What we would disclose

• Any unit not bought at retail, and where it came from.
• Any prior professional relationship with the maker.
• Any device one of us already owned before the review started.

How a review gets assigned

Whoever will actually use the thing takes it. A router that nobody wants to live with does not get reviewed, because a three-week review by someone bored of the device on day two is worse than no review.