Amir and Blind Testing

Measurements are great. HOWEVER... We measure what we think to measure. There are so many things going on that we don't have a measurement for. Yet some will put way too much weight on measurements. We need both. But I weight my senses as the final arbiter. I do agree our ears and brains are much more sensitive than many can imagine. For me blind tests are problematic...because our minds want to discriminate the 'outstanding' stuff...the most noticeable stuff while we may filter out nuance. Long term testing is needed to rule out mistakes and quantify the nuances. If something sounds better but you keep yearning for the other option...well, something else is going on. Possibly something we haven't a measurement for. Learn to develop and trust your senses...

End of the day let’s all agree to disagree. Some people enjoy Amir’s opinions. Others don’t.
 

I personally can’t be bothered to validate or comment on his experiments because, unlike Amir, who KNOWS he can’t be wrong because his numbers don’t lie, I have had first hand experience with some of the “exposed” products and I couldn’t disagree more with him. I don’t care what Amir thinks he KNOWS about a power plant because I have heard both P12 and P20 extensively and the difference they make in some systems is not subtle. I have heard what an audiophile switch can do even connected to cheap and cheerful streamers so, again, his lambasting falls on deaf ears.
 

My advice to his followers is simply to go out, listen, make up their own minds. Most of these products can be demoed for free, PS Audio has a generous return policy, no questions asked. Why not try a P12 for free and see whether Amir is indeed the Neo in our audiophile Matrix or the woman in the red dress? 
 

Enjoy the music🕺

My advice to his followers is simply to go out, listen, make up their own minds.

Not sure if your advice makes sense to the ASR crowd. Because if the measurements are not good,  then the product is outright dismissed. They follow ASR mod's mind, not their own. You have high expectations from people who refuse to use their senses and rely on tech measurements, exclusively 😀.

Enough of the us versus them. We are all the same. We use the tools at our disposal to assess and make decisions. Some do it better than others and some  are kind enough to share their findings.