Even the notion of a hobby based forum which does not allow opinions is outrageous.Can anybody else think of any other hobby type forum that would even contemplate such a thing? That might be fair enough in forums dealing with building bridges or prescribing medication but not in something used for home entertainment and music reproduction in the home and which exists to reproduce music .Which is a highly subjective thing.
Audio Science Review = "The better the measurement, the better the sound" philosophy
"Audiophiles are Snobs" Youtube features an idiot! He states, with no equivocation, that $5,000 and $10,000 speakers sound equally good and a $500 and $5,000 integrated amp sound equally good. He is either deaf or a liar or both!
There is a site filled with posters like him called Audio Science Review. If a reasonable person posts, they immediately tear him down, using selected words and/or sentences from the reasonable poster as100% proof that the audiophile is dumb and stupid with his money. They also occasionally state that the high end audio equipment/cable/tweak sellers are criminals who commit fraud on the public. They often state that if something scientifically measures better, then it sounds better. They give no credence to unmeasurable sound factors like PRAT and Ambiance. Some of the posters music choices range from rap to hip hop and anything pop oriented created in the past from 1995.
Have any of audiogon (or any other reasonable audio forum site) posters encountered this horrible group of miscreants?
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@kokakolia All-right, then ASR members have it all figured out! |
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So here’s the business model: Get a couple of measuring instruments like a FFT analyzer and a LCR meter. Start up a u-tube channel and pick a polarizing, controversial topic like expensive stereo gear. Make some simplistic measurements and declare this expensive component measures worse than its cheap counterparts or perhaps merely the same. This stirs up controversy and like guppies in a fish tank swarming to the fish food flakes he gets thousands of hits on his channel by us hobbyists because we can’t pass up a good fight. Cha-Ching! Brilliant! |
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