ASR is fun for everyone. All they really test is low end value line equipment unless a member sends in.
Think he was referencing the Dead Man’s Party.
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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Here or on most forums this is true, on ASR it's true to the extent you don't keep insisting your subjective experience relates to anything other than your subjective experience without any controlled testing to substantiate it which is what leads to bans as nobody there is interested in anecdotal narratives. |
The world of audio is filled with nothing but anecdotal narratives. Having some measurements doesn't make it authoritative. It's still anecdotal. All you have is some measurements to (hopefully) correlate with what you're hearing. But time and again, it's been proven not to be so. Anomalies in measurements can point to why something sounds off or bad, but even good (measurement) performing gear can fail to please the most experienced listeners. The audio world is full of tests and reviews of gear that measure well but just don't cut the (audio) mustard. All the best,
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@nonoise + 1 it is all part of the decision making chain. |
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