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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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thyname
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Stay focused. This is but a small part of the audio world declining in influence.

Stay focused on what? What is is the ultimate goal?

Frankly, I am embarrassed to be part of this community more often than not.

And yet, here you are. With a "secondary" handle you took your time to establish and post under. New email and all.

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russ69
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That is a myth unfortunately.

The myth is that short term blind testing with unknown recordings, with unknown equipment, in a strange environment provide accurate results. Blind testing generally gives a null result, it's use as a scientific tool is very questionable. It generally gives no result. 

td_dayton
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@crymeanaudioriver let the record show that never once have i referred to myself as an intellectual 😂

tsushima1
1,165 posts
 

@crymeanaudioriver 

So you created a sock puppet account in order hide behind a secondary alias in order to pass judgment upon other fellow members and by extension this forum  because you wished to preserve your ability to make money out of the facility AGon offers …

WoW !

tsushima1
1,165 posts
 

Conversely … How are we to discern whether to accept your somewhat contrived  back story ( having already displayed a taste for duplicity) of being an established member of this forum and not merely another 1st poster ASR drone teleporting in to support their Borg Queen ?

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