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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?  

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crymeanaudioriver
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You can assume I am not interested in your findings on audio equipment I have zero interest in. You are correct you are not a scientist nor an engineer. Nor are you a professional reviewer, you are average joe with some software and that is it.

 

@jerryg123 you have created a topic where you claim that the Alpha Audio cable test presents new data. There is nothing new, just the resistance of cables which was always known, and which I see being discussed many many times.  How do you reconcile your lack of knowledge in this area with your attack or Amir above?

noske
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@crymeanaudioriver

With a margin of likely well over 1000%, I don’t think some returns or even a lot of returns is an issue. Even 50% would be totally acceptable.

Amazon’s return rate I think is close to 20%.

Those are quite astonishing statistics.

I am actually very careful to only buy from vendors who do not offer any marketing guarantees as to their generous return policy. . Think.

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jerryg123
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@crymeanaudioriver I am not the one who claims to be an expert. Nor do I purport to be an expert with a web site named Audio Science Review. I simply shared information from the those Dutch fellas. 
 

So please do not tag me again as it has pointed out the emperor has no clothes. 

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russ69
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@russ69 +1, Nudell on trickle down tech:

I was very lucky. As a young audiophile, I visited every stereo shop in SoCal listening for the shop that had the best sound. I found it at Woodland Stereo, the shop that helped Arnie develop the Servo Static and other loudspeakers. I got to listen to the products and hear about the problems. By far the best sound in SoCal. I didn’t need a DBT to hear the difference, they were head and shoulders above the rest. Arnie had the education (Physics) and the ear to make extraordinary sounding loudspeakers. And I got a glimpse of it all as the products were tested and improved at the shop that I bought my gear from.

crymeanaudioriver
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@crymeanaudioriver I am not the one who claims to be an expert. Nor do I purport to be an expert with a web site named Audio Science Review. I simply shared information from the those Dutch fellas. 

 

Except @jerryg123 , you wrote this title, "Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it!"  which was your personal declaration. If you are not an expert, how do you feel qualified to make this declaration?

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