Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit

Your prediction of my listening preferences is completely irrelevant to me. To put it politely

I do not believe that it is solely @noske that is being referenced as the one(s) who has/have shown that measurements can be correlated to what people like.

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?
Amir said he would sell them at 1/2 price.

Are you talking to me? I have no skin in this game. I had never heard of those speakers (or that speaker kit) until I read this thread. I am only here for the 🎉 🎈 party (and of course, enjoy the show of the idol’s disciples getting panties in a bunch 🤷‍♂️)

Yeah I was talking to you… It looked like you have skin in the game?
And I was thinking it took “a big set” to defend those speakers.

Secondly I am not sure it is prudent to classify @noske of idolatry?

But are you talking about idolatry of ASR, or that of Toole/Olive and countless other researchers? 

Defending a speaker that was deemed bad by ASR and good by others could make sense.
Do some here believe that the GR LGK is a good speaker?
One person posted a 1/2 hour video review of some other speaker, I suppose as proof that the GR was good, however it looked like it was not even the LGK model.

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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"Attack to Amir’s comments and disrespect got to end here, folks."

And why is that? Is it because you have misinterpreted what GR has said? Anyone who rates and reviews equipment without listening to it is a complete waste of space and deserves to be ignored. Anyone who claims all Dacs sound the same and R2R Dacs are outdated technology is a fool. Likewise anyone who dismisses  any criticism of a certain Chinese Dac as ridiculous has ears of tin and knows not of what they speak.

@johnah5 

Regarding your bible comment, why would you not toss the entire thing out if you find some parts are not believable/true?…If some aren't true then how do you know any are true?  

No, because not all claims are dependent on the truth of other claims. 

I have a mechanic who believes the Covid virus has microchips in it planted there by Bill Gates. He is paranoid, ill informed about politics, and allows his perception of facts to be twisted by ideology. In this subject matter, he's not credible.

He also thinks that the rotors on my brakes are worn out because he's seen it a thousand times before and has physical evidence it's happening with my car, now. His job depends on good diagnoses, he has training in the relevant area, and he has evidence.

I have no problem accepting the second claim regardless of the first.