[chconline]

Description to follow soon.

[TL6MT]

I think I already know what it is - there are products that I can already think of that might get this Award. Why don't you just call it "aph | the chc choice" award?

[shc-boomer]

Nah, only the chc would get that award. So this product is near chcness haha.

[HopkinsProgramming]

Haha, nice.

[chconline]

TL6MT, on 07 March 2010 - 12:13 AM, said:

I think I already know what it is - there are products that I can already think of that might get this Award. Why don't you just call it "aph | the chc choice" award?

Thought about it -- the name is too long, and doesn't really have the type of elite connotation. It's too literal in my opinion

[shift]

I can't imagine how much awesome a product would need to have to get this in a review.

[TL6MT]

As if it's not already hard enough to get any kind of award on APH!

[shc-boomer]

I would think somewhere along the lines of expensive and very good.

[chconline]

http://aphnetworks.com/review_focus

The description is up!

[shc-boomer]

Quote

Award first announced: March 7, 2010 | The APH One award is not only an award -- it is a bold statement and a strong testament to the product that receives this honor. APH One recognizes a product that has reached the pinnacle of engineering and/or design at the time of review; a product that takes its market category to entirely new heights and pushes the limits of innovation and implementation. The product is simply groundbreaking and shockingly awesome. For consumers looking for products that are the best of the best, the elite of the elite, and the ultimate of its type, this is the one. This product is a true undisputed winner among its competition, and any flagship setup would not be considered a true flagship without it. This is APH One. This is ultimate.

Whoa, what an award!

This post has been edited by shc-boomer: 11 March 2010 - 08:12 PM

[redeemed]

...conveniently introduced just before the Intel i7 980X review, eh?


I kid

So this is like a really hardcore "Editor's Choice" of sorts, eh?

[shift]

Expensive does not always = good!

[chconline]

One of the reasons why I launched this award is because I don't want to dilute the APH Recommended branding. APH Recommended signifies a truly excellent product with little faults for your money, but that does not mean that it is the ultimate of its class. For example, the V-MODA Vibe II we reviewed last year is excellent by all accounts, and received an APH Recommended -- it is the best of its class but it is certainly not the best of the best. Now if you flip it around and say that the QX9650 we reviewed a couple years back had an APH Recommended as well, one could argue that just because it was one of the most expensive processor besides the QX9770 at the time really justifies the APH Recommended over a QX9450 for a fraction of the price. Another good example would be a product like the Level 10 (Which I don't have, and probably won't be getting one in the near future) -- assuming that it is amazing and groundbreaking in design, giving it a straight APH Recommended provides the value of the award, but does not necessarily represent what the award signifies. It is important to understand that these products are made for a reason regardless of the price for users willing to pay for the flagship, and we need to understand that performance does not increase linearly with cash, but e-peen does [exponentially] I'm being very careful not to dilute any of the APH Awards by making an award for everything, and in order to retain the value of each award I believe that launching 'APH One' is probably the best choice for the time being.

[redeemed]

Nice wall of text you got going there chc

In all seriousness though, I totally agree with you. Sometimes, cost isn't an obstacle. And besides, flagship models aren't designed with cost-effectiveness (is that a word?) in mind. Think of Intel's earlier models of SSDs. YOu'd have to pay out of the nose to get one of those. However, you'd be getting the best of the best as far as performance is concerned.

Looking forward to see which (if any!) product will get awarded the aph | one award soon

[TL6MT]

redeemed, on 12 March 2010 - 07:20 PM, said:

Nice wall of text you got going there chc

In all seriousness though, I totally agree with you. Sometimes, cost isn't an obstacle. And besides, flagship models aren't designed with cost-effectiveness (is that a word?) in mind. Think of Intel's earlier models of SSDs. YOu'd have to pay out of the nose to get one of those. However, you'd be getting the best of the best as far as performance is concerned.

Looking forward to see which (if any!) product will get awarded the aph | one award soon

+1
Good description chc. Looks like a rly hard thing to get.

[shift]

TL6MT, on 12 March 2010 - 10:37 PM, said:

+1
Good description chc. Looks like a rly hard thing to get.

An award is a really hard thing to get at APH period.

[shc-boomer]

shift, on 12 March 2010 - 11:19 PM, said:

An award is a really hard thing to get at APH period.

No, not really. It is more so, we haven't had any products that we would expect to get a award recently. That and our list of reviews is going down.

[chconline]

I would say it's pretty hard. And I am the Editor in Chief here.

[shc-boomer]

I don't think hard would be the right word though, it's not necessarily hard to get an award. I would think that it really shows in each and every product. Not all the awards are 100% based on excellence in all areas. Take a look at the Renewal or Equal Balance awards. A good product at an aggressive price and/or a new idea that sparks the market is not necessarily hard. Just takes some good old fashioned R&D and some pro marketing. Just ask Apple, they can sell an iPad.

[chconline]

Well yeah if it's excellence in all areas we have Recommended and the new One award. This is why there are multiple award categories to recognize different types of excellence. Renewal signifies potential in excellence market addressing, while equal.balance is given to a product that strikes an impressive price to performance ratio. Just because something is cheap or innovative in a sense won't automatically get you anything.

Hard is the most applicable word in my opinion, and I INVENTED the awards so I would know how it works around here. Not all good products gets an award automatically like the excellent and innovative P55A-UD6, yet the Patriot Box Office has an equal.balance. We want distinguished products. This is what makes it challenging in getting something to receive an award -- the NMP-1000 scored higher but no badge