Did Amir Change Your Mind About Anything?
It’s easy to make snide remarks like “yes- I do the opposite of what he says.” And in some respects I agree, but if you do that, this is just going to be taken down. So I’m asking a serious question. Has ASR actually changed your opinion on anything? For me, I would say 2 things. I am a conservatory-trained musician and I do trust my ears. But ASR has reminded me to double check my opinions on a piece of gear to make sure I’m not imagining improvements. Not to get into double blind testing, but just to keep in mind that the brain can be fooled and make doubly sure that I’m hearing what I think I’m hearing. The second is power conditioning. I went from an expensive box back to my wiremold and I really don’t think I can hear a difference. I think that now that I understand the engineering behind AC use in an audio component, I am not convinced that power conditioning affects the component output. I think.
So please resist the urge to pile on. I think this could be a worthwhile discussion if that’s possible anymore. I hope it is.
"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. |
@amir_asr You do ask for donations! Your blindspots are immense. |
"But Amir and (some of) his dedicated followers conveniently ignore all these objective facts and cast doubt on others so they can prop Amir up as the only person capable of providing honest and accurate reviews." No one ignores such a thing. Indeed, the opposite is true in the number of people on ASR who defend Erin, including the very thread you were talking about (his top 5 video). Neither me, or them think Erin's videos are dishonest in any way. The difference simply comes from a concept that you don't want to accept: ASR is not meant to be used to help someone else monetize their content. No forum allows this. You will get banned immediately on any other forum if you post a video and immediately asked for donations. Yet, I allow Erin's videos to be posted. Other fora would just ban any such links and go about their business. Bottom line, I love what Erin is doing as far as generating great objective data for speakers. I didn't love it when he attempted to use ASR to grow his activities and pay off the cost of his gear. I can't let him do this without the floodgates opening to everyone else wanting to do it. I think the concept of a pure, non-commercial site like ASR is so foreign to people that they just assume there must be more going on. Well, there isn't. We have created a unique social experiment where members and some companies send gear to me, and I test and report on it. I am fortunate enough to have had a long (and hard) career in tech as not need to make a living from it. This gives me incredible freedom to do things that others can't. I for example vote that 2/3 of the gear I test. Only 1/3 gets my recommendation. No one can survive such stats, including Erin by the way. But I am not here to make friends. I am here to provide transparency with respect to performance of audio gear. You know, the thing you said you wanted but are working hard to cast aside. Good news is that countless fellow audiophiles of yours are seeing the value and helping us grow by reading the content, spreading the good word and sending in more gear to be tested. That upsets a few of you here. Why? Because your casual evaluation of audio is being proven wrong in objective testing. So what to do? You can start learning what audio is really about. Or complain I guess....
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