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

European companies large and small are pushing the envelope especially in speaker design, class D amps, active DSP controlled full systems.

 

Is NAD a European company any more? I think they are effectively Canadian now.

@prof  I wonder if many of the people participating in this topic will realize that what they are writing, the way they write it, and how they misrepresent ASR, Amir and measurements in audio, will not be perceived by many who read this as a definitive debunking of ASR, but as a definitive debunking of their own beliefs?

 

@nonoise ,

Trolls are so adept at dancing on the head of a pin. 

Maybe less snark, more valuable contribution?  Maybe understanding what the word troll means in the context?