Good read: why comparing specifications is pointless

@amir_asr

You didn’t read the article about Toole’s room:

The room was configured in 2000, as a 7.1 system. The front wall was deliberately constructed as a low-mid frequency sound scattering surface using display niches and other depth variations (including spaces behind the fabric covered doors) to alleviate the boundary effect for that wall.

He has a purpose built room and the treatments aren’t displayed. If you look at the diagram his speaker layout follows dolby specs just like mine does (see the other thread I started about building an atmos room, LOL)

Good luck with your "critical listening" over at "dry wall studios". Complete waste of time, but you refuse to be "schooled by Toole" which makes you a ......

Well put, @jerryg123 . 

Mirrors what I said in the last post that our friend Amir attempted to hijack. He's pandering to people pretending to be audiophiles who are desperate to think their inexpensive gear is "just as good" when it's obvious they simply cannot afford it. I don't have a dog in this fight (I said what I felt in the last thread), but it just makes me shake my head.

Watching this go back and forth reminds me of 2 kids in the backseat on a road trip. "He's touching me!" "He touched me first!" "Did not!" "Did too!"

Perhaps if we ignore him, he'll go back to his little pond where he can continue to get his ego stroked by his audiophile-wannabe followers, while the rest of us get on with our lives.

@kota1 your should know by now, Amir is all knowing and the GOD OF AUDIO. He doesn't  have to read what you mere mortals post on these pages.

Not sure why he keeps coming back for all the abuse.

He is simply the greatest audio reviewer that ever walked the planet. Just ask him he will tell you.

@coralkong ​​​​@jerrybj

@amir_asr keeps coming back because he NEEDS to. If you had to listen to 400 or whatever components over at "dry wall studios" wouldn’t you look for an escape? Audiogon Forum rocks, intelligent members, open minded, genial, phenomenal virtual system area, who can blame the guy for trying to escape from that "other" board, where it seems to be just the opposite.

BTW Amir, you do realize the title of this thread is spot on, whatever specs you measure ARE pointless when you stick your gear in a really bad room.

Please come check out the thread I started on an Atmos build, you NEED it.

@jerrybj 

Well Amir, I hadn't expected your arrogance. Your assumptions are unpalatable.

This is what arrogance looks like: that the entire body of audio science, research and engineering doesn't apply to the sound coming out of your audio systems.  That objective measurements and controlled testing have no value.  That some magical force in the universe is intervening in audio and only in audio to create experiences that cannot be explained by a shred of physics, electronics, psychoacoustics, etc.  This, is arrogance to the extreme.  Not me explain all of this to you.

And oh, I believe you when you say your system sounds great.  The problem is you thinking alternative DACs don't and they are for the reasons you mentioned.  This, is the problem.