Did Amir Change Your Mind About Anything?

"Amir says Erin's video was removed because it was clickbait and he doesn't want anyone to earn money by having their videos shared on ASR. "

His video was NOT removed.  For heaven's sake, why don't you guys spend 10 seconds fact checking stuff you write???  Here is the thread again for all to see:

 https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/erins-top-5-speakers-regardless-of-price-june-2023.45988/#post-1639462

All I said in there was this as a follow up from another poster wondering if he has "marketing intentions:"

"Hate clickbait titles like that. It seems every second there is another like that. This whole monetization business drives creators to make so many of these."

That comment got a lot of people to throw themselves over the railroad tracks defending Erin and getting quite personal to boot.  So I eventually closed the thread since there was no substance that was being discussed from his video anyway.

"As for clickbait, let's all remember how many back-and-forth videos Amir has created about Danny @ GR Research and Paul McGowan @ PS Audio.  Amir knew those would get views."

And what would views do for me on a channel that has no monetization, ads or sponsorship?  Nothing.  I do those videos because members and non-members ask for an answer to claims made by Danny, Paul, etc.  In every case I work hard to make sure there are substantive technical information.  They are not, "here are my top 5 speakers."  No definition of clickbait applies to my video whereas it is clear as a day that it applies to Erin's.  Erin does want the views, the ads, the sponsorships, the channel growth, etc.  Again, those are fine for him.  Just don't use ASR to promote content like this.  I don't know why this is such a hard concept for you all to grasp.  

"It is plain to see that Amir doesn’t like Erin and uses any reason he can to justify his logic even when it clearly goes against his other actions such as failure to delete/close other threads which contain links through ASR and his own part in playing "the game" by creating content he knows will create drama and fuel views, asking for donations, asking for likes/subscribers all while running a business that sells various brands."

Nonsense.  I post a review almost every other day.  Few are controversial things or created to create drama.  Latest reviews were a DCA headphone and TP RA3 rackmount amplifier.  The latter is an incredibly nice, state of the art amplifier with beautiful display and input selection going for just $229.

Hardly anything I test has anything to do with my company whose business is custom integration for high-end residential and commercial projects.  If there is such a conflict, it is noted at the start of the review, you know, the transparency you talked about: 

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/jbl-ac25-speaker-review.43520/

"NOTE: our company, Madrona Digital is a dealer for Harman products (and hence JBL) for custom integration business. So while there is no benefit to us one way or the other how this review goes, feel free to read whatever bias you want into my subjective remarks."

This is how the review ended:

"I can't provide a recommendation one way or the other without evaluating the AC25 with its companion filtering. Wish the company would make this more clear in its marketing material."

You are also out of line with that "asking likes."  I never, ever do that in my videos.  There is not one mention of such thing in the video or even in the notes below it.  The videos are presented as pure information for people to watch and enjoy, free of ads, or any kind of interruptions.

It seems you are so used to people trying to milk others for such things that you assumed I do the same when the facts are completely against your claims.

"Some people hear.

Some people listen.

Some people measure.

Some people know the difference."

We measure and listen.  Seems to be a better strategy than just listen.  But sure, some still think they rather know less about their purchases than more.... And think they have such super human hearing ability that have no need for any instrumentation.  I get it.

@amir_asr I dont think he was asking for a book. It would be great to hear about these speakers but you provided no detail other than things like "nice recording" that gives zero insight into what you liked or didnt like.

@amir_asr Yeah you didn’t remove the video but you shut down the discussion about the video, effectively removing it from being bumped to the top. Tomato tomatoe. Censorship at its worst. How much money have you made from ASR referring clients to your business? Or from people reading your content. Traffic is traffic. You are shooting yourself in the foot. I have not posted on ASR which I was actively participating in and getting engaging conversation going, since you took that thread down. His title is not clickbait. This is clickbait. Saying something you clearly do not mean or is meant to just get people to watch and then stating the opposite or changing the videos’s intent.

"I don’t know why the is such hard concept for you to grasp."

"Quote: If you have not already, please go to my youtube page and subscribe. It won’t make me any money but will work to improve our influence in youtube world:"

Oh, that is what you meant.  Clever of you to put that in the footnote.  That comment came about because of people saying if someone has more subscribers, he must be more right.  So I thought I put in a request or two in the text on ASR for the last couple of videos.

But as I stated, no video has any such requests unlike what you claimed and implied in your post.  So you can't possibly compare me to other youtubers who stop the flow of the video, only to beg for subscribers, likes, notifications, etc.