Michael Zhao is posting under the un-flaired name of AqueousBeef. Gamer-extraordinaire, Wes specializes in tech writing for us, Tested, and How Stuff Works.īrian Lam, also brianlam8, who founded the Wirecutter after growing tired of doing blog work with a low signal to noise ratio. azar42, computer & computer parts expert.
When Nathan is not honing his skills as ginger-beer-connoisseur he is a Contributing Editor at Maximum PC as well as a writer for both us and Tested. wirecutter_nathan, computer & computer parts expert.
After leaving the world of software development, Chris is now the Senior Editor at, Displays Editor at, and contributor to. He served as editor-in-chief of Home Theater magazine and is currently Stereos Expert for and contributing technical editor for Sound & Vision.Ĭhris Heinonen, a.k.a. Brent Butterworth has been writing about audio and video since 1989. Geoff specializes in the entertainment side of both the tech world and the literary world not only is he the former Editor In Chief of Home Entertainment Magazine as well as current contributor to CNET, Sound+Vision Magazine, and (among others), he also has a thrilling, dystopic Sci-Fi novel out titled Undersea.īrent Butterworth, a.k.a. Tim is our go-to man for anything camera-related whose work has appeared at io9, PopPhoto, DigitalCameraInfo, the Verge, Imaging Resource. Jamie is our Senior Researcher for both The Wirecutter and The Sweethome. Jamie Wiebe, also known as JamieWirecutter, an editor who has a particular expertise in Sweethome-related items. Levite, dealmaster extraordinaire who manages our deals page. We can also field questions about specs and other general questions about the products we review. If we know of better deals on better gear, we’ll point you to those, instead. Here’s how it’ll work: You guys post deals that you're interested in, and our staff will answer within their realms of expertise about whether it's a good deal or not, and why. So in honor of Black Friday, we thought we'd do a deal AMA where we offer our assistance in figuring out which deals are BS and which are good. You guys and girls are probably well aware that most deals out there are BS ( there's even a recent (Wall Street Journal article about this) where the retailer claims something’s 40% off when in reality, it's the same price it's always been. In fact, we have an entire Deals page where we highlight deals that our experts have vetted as actual good deals. Because we don’t distract ourselves with blog posts, our pieces are feature length and each costs several thousand dollars and about 50-150 hours of research and effort to pull off.īecause we collectively pour so much of our time into researching and testing, we've become pretty good at spotting good and bad deals-even when some other publications get fooled routinely by fake deals on horrible gear. We also really dislike the way online journalism has devolved into hype and pageview generating BS, so we only post new pieces a few times a month. Some people compare us to Consumer Reports, others compare us to America's Test Kitchen, but we’re not quite a testing organization as a place that does whatever it takes to answer the question of “what should I get?”. There was a New York Times article written about us in 2012. Hi reddit! We are the writers and editors from The Wirecutter, a site dedicated to helping people find the right equipment for their lives through many, many of hours of research and testing.