Has the ASR review/hatchet job on the Musetec MH-DA005 Changed Anyone's Mind?

The Musetec 005 is a fantastic DAC and tremendous value for it's price, $3k.

I have been an extremely satisfied owner of the 005 for almost one year now and have been very pleased with the huge soundstage, realistic and uncoloured presentation this DAC provides.

In this hobby you will not get very far if you can't be prepared to trust your own hearing. I don't give reviewers or influencers my trust because they all get paid one way or another. Even posters on this Forum have their own agendas that fly in the face of facts.

The 005 will not be found lacking in any system you put it in, regardless of value.

So my answer is no, ASR failed miserably to discredit a wonderful DAC.

Your title calls the review a "hatchet job." Anyone who found themselves convinced by the ASR review would have to out themselves as someone gullible enough to be convinced by a hatchet job.

In other words, you seem to be fishing for a particular set of answers by your framing of the question. Someone "hatchet-like" itself, no?

A strategy that never failed me: avoid like a plague what ASR recommends. And, put in your “watch lists” for auditions what ASR bashes. It works like a charm. Every single time.

If your ears are happy, what does Asinine Science Review have to do with that?  They’d have you think a $100 Topping DAC is superior to Musetec, Denafrips, etc. based solely on measurements.  They don’t trust their own ears so they have to resort to what measurements tell them what should sound good.  Sad.  Just sad.  Go with your own ears and reviewers you’ve come to trust and you’ll be just fine.  Numbers have a place, but they sure as hell ain’t everything.  

If you like the sound of the DAC then don't worry about a negative review or what others think.

Regarding the the review being a "hatchet job", I didn't read it that way.  There was some early nitpicking about the remote and a power-up delay, but I didn't read anything I would classify as being malicious, unjustified, or irresponsible.  Amir performed measurements on a brand new DAC using his test equipment.  He reported the results and pointed out areas where the review sample performed well (linearity and dynamics) as well as areas where it performed poorly.  He concluded that, in his opinion, a DAC in that price range should perform/measure better.  He offered to revisit if the company disagrees with his results. 

Maybe one problem is that we have been conditioned to expect that all reviews will be positive.  Even the negative reviews are often carefully scripted so as not to offend.  My problems with the "review" are that there is no mention about how it sounds, and the minor pile-on by other readers is mostly bad form.  However, just because the DAC measured poorly is not a reason to discredit the messenger.