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?
"ASR members are soooo condescending!" ^^^ Say certain AGon members making the most condescending comments about ASR members and their equipment. And none of this is taken notice of by those castigating "objectivists" or sites like ASR. All the "arrogance and condescension" is always on the other side. But, that’s human nature for you: We tend not to notice when our tribe does it.
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@crymeanaudioriver whats it like being one of Amir’s flying monkeys? Don’t sell yourself short you have been condescending throughout this string.
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Question for the ASR guys. Referring to the SINAD chart, it is labeled "Excellent, Good/Very good, Fair, and Poor". That's in reference to its measured performance but still perhaps a value judgement but if you are measuring noise and distortion with some made up formula. Would not it be more valuable if the groups were labeled; "Audible, Perhaps Audible, and Not Audible"? |
