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

Amir said:

I tested a PS audio directstream DAC. It measured poorly in low frequencies. After a bunch of back and forth with claims you believe in, it turns out that for cost reasons they used low quality transformers that produced more distortion! Multi-thousand dollar DAC used low quality parts...

Don't be so naive.  All manufacturers have price points.  If you do not like the sound of their DAC, move on.  Buy something that sounds better to you or tear them all apart until you find one built like you want it.  Danny, a real audio and measurement guy tests and tears down speakers costing thousands of dollars and shows us the low cost parts inside.  The speaker was built to have a certain sound and performance for its price point. It is not a gotcha game.  It is the realities of business.  Danny also designs upgrade kits for these speakers that one can buy if they are interested in improving the sound.  Every piece of gear has room for improvement no matter the cost point.

Something more useful might be durability testing.  HALT testing (Highly accelerated life testing) on gear to find the weak points and define the useful life of the gear would be interesting- but costly.

Now addressing this bit in OP:

@fleschler 

Some of the posters music choices range from rap to hip hop and anything pop oriented created in the past from 1995.  

How on earth did this pass as an argument? "Some of the posters" listen to this and some other music?  What if they did?  That makes them less of a music lover and audiophile?

The tastes of our membership runs the gamut just like it does in any forum.  We have a long list pinned to our home page: 

It has nearly 16,000 tracks/albums people love!  Clearly OP has no idea about our music preferences any more than he does about every other thing he claimed there.

Long term listening is still the gold standard of audio evaluation

I thought our aural memory was very short. 

@amir_asr , I saw the pic of your system, can you comment on why you chose those speakers? I know they must measure nice but a lot of speakers measure nice. Why those? Are you here to discuss audio or throw rocks at the OP like a "miscreant"?

My first post, so feel free to attack me. As a new member, all I see is a bunch of irate people desperately trying to defend their investment in suboptimal equipment by claiming that they are somehow gifted  in their hearing, but without the balls to actually put that to a blind test. Indeed they seem so insecure in their own beliefs that they respond with vitriol and illogic when challenged. 

Now maybe not all of you are like that. I hope so. But please, those people, come forward and say so.