Whether I agree or disagree with Amir on a specific subject or product, he still makes me throw up a little bit in the back of my mouth...
As JP would say "a disagreeable personality".
Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit
I bounce between various kinds of analysis — more subjective listening reports, more quantitative measurement analyses and, my favorite, those that combine both strategies to tell a useful story about audio products.
Amir of ASR has just done a very powerful takedown of a fairly inexpensive kit being sold by Danny at GR Research. Not only does he prove his point about the speakers, he also makes (to my mind) a very convincing case that Danny put his finger on the scale in how he reported his own measurements.
I'm not in any camp — Danny's or Amir's or anyone else's. What I appreciate is thoroughness and meticulousness in exposition. Danny does that in his own videos. (Again -- to me. I'm really still learning and cannot easily spot gaps in argument in this subject matter.)
I know people with some of GR's best kits — and I've heard one of them. They sounded incredible. I've watched a bunch of Danny's videos where he criticizes other companies; I've come away thinking, "Wow, he really revealed some of the grift embedded in that product."
But here, the tables are turned, it seems, on Danny. I hope he responds, both to defend his reputation and methods, but also because it will set in relief where some of the distance may be between these two dominant online figures' methods in assessing what makes for a good speaker.
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Your prediction of my listening preferences is completely irrelevant to me. To put it politely |
And I do put some stock in the years of research as a way to help identify what is worth pursuing and what should be skipped over. To be confrontational to the point that you would defend these speakers seems like a risky pair of speakers to wager on being good. And I say that because we are not exactly talking comparing subtlety different, and subtly nuanced, top shelf gear here.
Maybe you can let us know how those GR “Little Giant Killers” sound to you? |
Yeah I was talking to you… It looked like you have skin in the game? Secondly I am not sure it is prudent to classify @noske of idolatry? Defending a speaker that was deemed bad by ASR and good by others could make sense. I can appreciate that people do not like AM’s message, or maybe his message delivery… but it seems like it is totally divisive to discount the whole research arm as something to be removed. In this one on one, I think that I would have to side with AM over GR. That video clip did sound very distorted on play back, and if I was on a desk using them I would want to be able to hit 90dB being only ~1 meter away. |
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