Audio Science Review = "The better the measurement, the better the sound" philosophy

Who claims there’s nothing left to invent? Immersive audio recording and playback is a relatively new invention and I imagine improvements will continue to be invented. DIRAC is getting reading to release a new invention of their room correction. A new type of DAC chip or amplifier could be invented but I don’t see much direction there as those available now are capable of reproducing the medium beyond human audibility, doesn’t mean someone somewhere isn’t working on something new. I believe Atmasphere a contributor here invented a new type of class D amp.

There are probably more than a few here who miss the good old days of arguing over Covid vaccines.

How can anything new be invented if we already have perfection according to the measurements you guys often talk about. 

@kokakolia , we will see how amir responds, I hope he didn't come here just to plug the leak in his collection basket. So far he has not posted anything about his own system, his tastes, what he wants to achieve. I don't think he has discussed anything audio related in any of the many other threads here. He certainly has not created a bridge between our forums and is still banning dissenters at ASR. Maybe he is a bit defensive still and will open up a bit and relax later and discuss more about his system, his tastes, etc.

How about some empirical data points.

Context: Long time audiophile, heard many multi $100K systems, my own system well over $100k.

Cocurrently owned Auralic Vega, LKS 004, Okto Dac 8 stereo, Musetec MH DA005. I know ASR reviewed both Okto and Musetec, Okto superior signal to noise and jitter measurements, Musetec did rather poorly compared to virtually every dac they've measured.

My experience with all these dacs, Musetec superior resolving, transparency, at least equal to Vega and Okto in ease, relaxed qualities, far superior dynamics, especially micro.

Based on ASR measurements, this dac should be relatively low resolving, transparency, have nervous, digital sound quality,, small sound stage. None of these things relate to how it sounds.

ASR signal to noise measurements of dacs has virtually no bearing on real world listening as analog section in audio systems higher noise. I see virtually nothing in their measurements that gives much insight to quality of dac power supply, things like authority, micro dynamics, or how it impacts flavor. More interested in jitter measurements, while 005 poor jitter measurements don't translate to sense of digititus or small sound stage, would be insightful to see improved jitter with this unit and see if that translated to even more ease and larger sound stage.

005 has been also compared to at least one other dac they've tested, vs Mola Mola Tambaqui, another superior measuring dac, 005 preferred in at least one case. 005 has also been compared to Weiss and Holo May amongst others, held it's own in all company. Based on ASR measurements this dac sucks, not true in real world.

It would be enlightening to see far more of these empirical data points, comparison reviews of dacs ASR has reviewed would give us far more insight into possible correlations. My take is this particular measurement protocol tells us very little about how these dacs sound in real world.