There was a story in the early 1990s about GM hiring a former car thief to try to break into their new model car featuring the latest in anti-theft technology. GM engineers were so confident in their newest anti-theft deterrents that they put a large timer on stage and unrehearsed had this former car thief attempt to break in and steal the car in front of an audience of car dealers. The story goes that the former thief walked on stage with a sledgehammer and hit the front bumper. The airbag deployed and the doors immediately unlocked. The guy got in the car with a screwdriver and started the car. The large timer showed just a few seconds had elapsed. Yes, the engineers had egg on their face. Linear thinking has its advantages but also has limitations.
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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