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?
Amir & Co. believe audio equipment can be evaluated without listening, so sometimes they don't bother to listen at all - blind or otherwise. Those who clamor most loudly for blind testing rarely undertake such evaluations themselves. |
There are very frequent blind tests posted by members. Here is a very recent one: His conclusion: "TLDR; NO DIFFERENCE could be reliably discerned via blind abx testing between the Hegel h390 internal DAC and the Chord Hugo TT2 under close listening in my listening room." The problem with you all's claims about ASR seems to be that you still don't know what we do there. |
As I just post, there are plenty of blind tests performed at ASR. And tons and tons of listening tests by me. I listen to every speaker, every headphone and every headphone amplifier and dac combo. That is nearly half of what I review. A count that dwarfs what everyone else does considering that I review about 250 to 300 products a year. Really, if you are a fan of blind tests, then you should perform them and do so properly. If you are not, then don't complain about how much we do it. After all, you are not supposed to care. Note that I am not demanding anyone go and perform blind tests. They are time consuming. But if you are going to make outlandish claims that go against decades of audio science research and engineering, and stomp your feet that people believe you, then please, do the testing with your ears only. Do not involve your other senses. I don't know why this is such a hard concept for some of you to accept.
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@amir_asr thank you for the link. Okay one is not a level of frequency and not a confirmation. Has to be repeatable and verifiable. @crymeanaudioriver called the Dutch Boys armatures, this seems quite armature. One person does not make a quorum. One test is not validating a trend. You did not do the test. |
