Audio Science Review = "The better the measurement, the better the sound" philosophy

@laoman 
 

However anyone who is thinking about purchasing equipment based on an ASR recommendation should really beware.

It should go without saying that buying any audio equipment based on any third party recommendation, without first listening in one's room with one's equipment is fraught with problems and a crap shoot.

At least with ASR's objective review, you are shown if the item is properly engineered and constructed, performs as it should, and meets the claims of the manufacturer. I have seen time and time again reviews of products on ASR that fail at these basic fundamentals. In that regard, it serves a useful and legitimate purpose.

Perhaps it's time to start coming up with some alternative versions of what the initials ASR stand for.

Also-ran?

It should go without saying that buying any audio equipment based on any third party recommendation, without first listening in one’s room with one’s equipment is fraught with problems and a crap shoot.

@kuribo - BINGO!

Relying on any one source of information for purchasing choices, whether the manufacturer’s marketing babble, reported measurements, professional reviewers, or posts on forum sites like this may very well lead to disappointment, particularly without thoroughly listening to whatever is being purchased and preferably in one’s own system.

I fail to understand the level of anger and name-calling that results from the ASR site posting measurements and their personal opinions, while it is apparently ok for the "wisdom of the masses" on sites like this to encourage people to spend thousands of dollars on multi-colored fuses, expensive cables, incomprehensible tweaks, or digital add-ons and doodads that become obsolete about every two years as the manufacturer releases the next latest and greatest. Did someone kill a sacred cow?

This stuff is a common byproduct of free enterprise, which is still a better system than the alternative. You can learn to protect yourself (and your money) with knowledge, experience, and street savvy.

Good lord it's back.