Good read: why comparing specifications is pointless

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.

@jerryg123 

@kota1 your should know by now, Amir is all knowing and the GOD OF AUDIO.

I am not.  I am however great student of audio science, research and engineering.  This is why I am able to back everything I say with independent research.  And why you or other reviewers like you, cannot.  Their opinion is expressed and demanded to be believed.  No amount of explaining to them simple things like only using your ears to evaluate audio systems sinks in.  They stomp their feet, get angry, demand that the truth not be spoken.  

What is really strange is common sense is absent as well.  You keep saying you don't want me here, then throw out fighting words like what I am responding to.  Or arguments that can be trivially shown to be wrong.