So is CAT (Critical Audio Theory) now a 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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So @noske you are a faithful follower of the brother John Birch? His minions are descending, in the hopes they will accent into to Amir’s audio heaven.
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@kota1 Yep kind of like a cult. Wonder if ASR is a 501 (c)(3)???? |
My reaction to ASR was based on a friend and ASR devotee telling me that what I claimed to be hearing was actually me imagining things. Of course he had never listened to the device mentioned but since Amir said it was bogus, then it has to be bogus. I’ve always agreed that audio science and test measurements are of course necessary in certain applications but to dismiss someone’s listening experiences if it contradicts measurements is inaccurate. The claim that ASR is factual because science supports it objectively and that listening reviews are subjective and therefore less valid is a faulty premise. I care very little about hundreds of website forums on the World Wide Web. Had my ASR friend not expressed his zealotry and told me that I was full of it, I wouldn’t know or care about ASR. |
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