Why HiFi Gear Measurements Are Misleading (yes ASR talking to you…)

@mastering92 

People make donations on ASR. Long ago, there was proof of collusion between said site admin and now-popular Chi-Fi audio brands (execs and designers) on various forums. Of course, before starting ASR, those tracks were paved over....so anyone who thinks ASR is an audio science charity is fooling themselves.

The only people fooling themselves are those believing such nonsense.  Here is the background on this.

The rumor started on SBAF forum.  Some guy found a distributor for Topping products who had the same *first name* as me, i.e. Amir.  That is like thinking anyone called John is like any other person called John in US!  He then made another preposterous claim that Topping and SMSL are the same company.  This is completely untrue.  These are fierce competitors and are not at all part of any company, holding or otherwise.

I pointed this out on ASR a few years ago when this came up and have heard anyone repeat it until now.

So to be clear, I have zero business relationship with any audio company, Chinese or otherwise.  I retired successfully from technology industry more than a decade ago and am in no need of commercial benefits in that manner.  My methodology for recommending audio products is based for the most part on objective measurements which cannot be subject to bias in that manner even if I did have a connection with them.

So please don't go spreading such rumors, much less to say there is any kind of "proof."  If you have proof, present it.  Otherwise, you are just showing how little it takes for you to believe in complete fantasy.  

@fredrik222 , have you asked ASR if they agree with the link you posted?  I doubt they do!!  That’s my point.  Now that @amir_asr has joined the discussion maybe he can weigh in.  But I’m guessing he is not interested in engaging, beyond the more unfortunate topic he responded to.

The funny thing about the subjective/objective divide is that it's ALL subject to scientific evaluation.

E.g. "burn-in" may be a mechanical phenomenon and measurable with tools we have or it may not yet be measurable.

Or, "burn-in" may be something which happens in the brain/mind of the listener. We certainly lack to the tools to measure brains that precisely, yet.

Or it may not be a phenomenon at all, either objectively or subjectively. But science cannot prove negatives.

If the phenomenon exists, it falls under the remit of science, which will do the best it can, be it physics, psychology, or whatever.

@nyev  you can ask him yourself.

but, audio equipment, and almost everything else, changes over time. That’s just how the universe works.

but that is still not the point, the point you made is that we need keep our minds open, and you, yourself, keep your mind very closed, or you would have abandoned your straw man argument long time ago. You are the point of the point you were trying to make.