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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?  

fleschler
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milpai
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but large audio manufacturers respect his results.

Walmart is also large. Does not mean they make the best products.

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kota1
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@quiet, I gotta call you on BS. Everyone here needs to know that the only thread you have ever posted in is this one and it looks like you just joined today.

To legit members, just ignore this guy, total troll.

 

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jtgofish
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Speakers change timing?  Or are you saying something else changes timing. Digital audio is accurate to a nanosecond, vinyl 10's of nanoseconds, phase in speakers uSeconds. Are you telling me that the pace and rhythm of the music is changed by speakers? You realize that is that logical?

Qiuet,Speakers certainly influence the way we hear timing.Especially multi ways where time alignment of the drivers is hard to get right.It sounds slightly out of time because it is.Some designers like Duntech went to a lot of  trouble with stepped baffles and crossover design to ensure  time alignment.Other speakers like Tannoy dual concentrics have the benefit of physical time alignment .Rise time and impulse response  measurements reflect this time alignment.A great many speakers have quite poor time alignment because the acoustic centres of the drivers are out of alignment.Add to that other factors like phase response anomalies due to reverse phase leakage from ports.

invalid
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@quiet 

That's why transistor amplifiers have been trying to emulate the tube sound since day one. 

 

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