What’s good about Goodmans?
My dad always taught me to appreciate quality, and I have lived by the maxim: buy cheap, buy twice. Ergo, I have not ever purchased any audio visual equipment with the brand name Goodmans on it. This caused me lots of aggro many years ago with an ex-girlfriend who entrusted me with some of her savings to go and buy a portable TV for her whilst she was at work. I ignored all the cheap stuff and bought a very nice little Philips set, much to the consternation of her parents who considered my purchase to be reckless and wasteful, when a Goodmans set could have been had for less. I have always stood by my decision, and now I have been vindicated!
I’ve just enjoyed a week in the Lake District, where I rented a cottage for our family holiday. Said cottage came complete with Goodmans TV set - one with a combi DVD player built in. How was it? “Utter festering crap” is the only words I can find to do it justice. The picture was lacklustre and the build quality looked woeful, but the real issue was the audio. Cheap and nasty audio components and speakers all contributed to completely unlistenable sound, no matter what setting I tried. Speech merged into background sounds and music into one big blob of indeterminate sound. Hopeless.
My wife once bought a Goodmans hi-fi (or lo-fi, depending on your viewpoint) and I chided her mercilessly for the purchasing choice. We weren’t married at the time. Had we been, I would have made her take it straight back for a refund. It was naturally the cheapest and nastiest sound system which murdered every song ever played through its woeful speakers.
So, what’s good about Goodmans? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Rubbish kit for people with no ears.
Personally, I love Goodmans products, have always found them great value for money and really reliable. Why spend hundreds on a DVD player for example when £20 buys you a high end Goodmans product?
OK, so I talking crap… Goodmans are crap…
Couldn’t agree with you more on this one Dayv.
Personally, I love Goodmans products, have always found them great value for money and really reliable. Why spend hundreds on a DVD player for example when £20 buys you a high end Goodmans product?
OK, so I am talking crap… Goodmans are crap…
Couldn’t agree with you more on this one Dayv.
It would seem that Goodmans extended their policy for the cheap and the shoddy to their marketing people. Their website www.goodmans.co.uk has that, how do you say…. oh I know - “utter shite” look about it, suitably matching the appearance of their sound systems….