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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?  

fleschler
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russ69
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@russ69 +1, Nudell on trickle down tech:

I was very lucky. As a young audiophile, I visited every stereo shop in SoCal listening for the shop that had the best sound. I found it at Woodland Stereo, the shop that helped Arnie develop the Servo Static and other loudspeakers. I got to listen to the products and hear about the problems. By far the best sound in SoCal. I didn’t need a DBT to hear the difference, they were head and shoulders above the rest. Arnie had the education (Physics) and the ear to make extraordinary sounding loudspeakers. And I got a glimpse of it all as the products were tested and improved at the shop that I bought my gear from.

crymeanaudioriver
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@crymeanaudioriver I am not the one who claims to be an expert. Nor do I purport to be an expert with a web site named Audio Science Review. I simply shared information from the those Dutch fellas. 

 

Except @jerryg123 , you wrote this title, "Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it!"  which was your personal declaration. If you are not an expert, how do you feel qualified to make this declaration?

larabee
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The natives may be getting restless.

axo1989
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@kota1 

Don’t try this at home kids!!

Are you saying you don't have a robot speaker shuffler at home in your oversized listening room? Or audio luminary Sean Olive on hand to give you pointers? What sort of committed audiophile are you?

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