@tonywinga , we have a lot to talk about, Danny is amazing, and he and @amir_asr apparently had a falling out, take his reply in context.
Audio Science Review = "The better the measurement, the better the sound" philosophy
"Audiophiles are Snobs" Youtube features an idiot! He states, with no equivocation, that $5,000 and $10,000 speakers sound equally good and a $500 and $5,000 integrated amp sound equally good. He is either deaf or a liar or both!
There is a site filled with posters like him called Audio Science Review. If a reasonable person posts, they immediately tear him down, using selected words and/or sentences from the reasonable poster as100% proof that the audiophile is dumb and stupid with his money. They also occasionally state that the high end audio equipment/cable/tweak sellers are criminals who commit fraud on the public. They often state that if something scientifically measures better, then it sounds better. They give no credence to unmeasurable sound factors like PRAT and Ambiance. Some of the posters music choices range from rap to hip hop and anything pop oriented created in the past from 1995.
Have any of audiogon (or any other reasonable audio forum site) posters encountered this horrible group of miscreants?
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I understand that to be true. I'm not a fan of A-B testing. I think you have to optimize each setup and listen for a long time. In the end you'll be able to learn which system you prefer but I wouldn't say you'll know which one is better, too many variables. Unless there are gross differences. |
I had a boss once decades ago that was obsessed with data. He just wanted to test and test. It didn't seem to go anywhere. He wanted more data and just could not finalize anything. Testing for the sake of testing is pointless. It has to mean something. Compare the data to listening tests or what? Measurements by themselves mean nothing. But to conclude something does not sound good because the measurements say it doesn't is circular reasoning. That is because the key ingredient to how it sounds is to listen to it. Measurements are a means to an end. How it sounds is the end- the final word on the subject. Kind of like the old adage, " There comes a time in the life of any project when it is necessary to shoot the engineer and start production." |
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