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!
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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This strikes me as a dubious claim. Feel free to prove me wrong by linking to examples of mean or nasty responses to a mild reference to the usefulness of measurements. I am well aware of that isolated, idiotic responses can be found on many various threads, but the suggestion that there are some kind of systematic attempts to shame those who merely suggest that measurements can be useful does not ring true.
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@jtgofish The running/jogging community absolutely sucks and they make ASR seem approachable. The Magic: The Gathering community equally sucks. In this community you either follow the metagame described by the pros or scrub the floor. |
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