I Am Tired of Bogus Measurements


My expensive shoes have measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will they fit. My expensive new suit has measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will my expensive new shoes match.

The people being misled by measruements aren’t being led my manufacturers, they are being misled by reviewers. Idiotic rankings of digital gear based on measurements outside the range of human hearing. Cancelling entire brands who put out features customers actually want as they sell to humans, not bats. The worst of these websites will rant about their own superior $$$ equipment but mot even one person will ever use speakers in a klippel matchine, they actually put them in a room! The horror. The cancelling of brands, the talking down to the customers, is bogus.

You need to measure what matters! Are the customers actually happy? Is the warranty honored? Most importantly is their an in home audition period?
I don’t need someone to tell me if I could or should like a product. My room is not a test bench, or a klippel machine. Who cares what the component measures by itself because unless its a clock radio I’ll never use it by itself, I have to interconnect it in a "system" with "high quality" cables, (as in all cables are not the same).

If you want to measure something measure how your personal system of curated components interact with your room. That’s it. The rest of the stuff you could forget because these days if a brand overpromises and under delivers they will be following a formula for losing money, an no company likes that.

kota1

Summary of this lengthy topic. Bogus is whatever Kota 1 wants it to be.

On that basis, as they say over here on Dragon's Den, I'm out.

@yoyoyaya     Yes, Kota misuses the term BOGUS, despite my efforts to explain.

And now he has suggested I elided offensive and bogus, which I didn't.

I can tell you all one thing: there was never a fraction of the offensive and bogus stuff before they invented the internet.  We are fast approaching the stage where it does more damage than good.  There never was such a leveller down.  The few decent people that are left will soon be running a mile.

Ho hum.

@clearthinker 

there was never a fraction of the offensive and bogus stuff before they invented the internet

+1, now you know why I am tired of it. Click bait using bogus measurements to drive traffic to your site and SELL more stuff, yep.

Saying bogus measurements repeatedly does not make it factual Using bogus links and bogus white papers to assert other things are bogus also does not make it factual. Also not proven is any evidence of a cancellation. Criticism is not cancellation especially if a relatively consistent basis is used for all criticism even if you do not like what that basis is.