ASR tried cancelling GR Research using bogus measurements so another reviewer showed up to check it out personally. What happened? What do you think:
I Am Tired of Bogus Measurements
My expensive shoes have measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will they fit. My expensive new suit has measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will my expensive new shoes match.
The people being misled by measruements aren’t being led my manufacturers, they are being misled by reviewers. Idiotic rankings of digital gear based on measurements outside the range of human hearing. Cancelling entire brands who put out features customers actually want as they sell to humans, not bats. The worst of these websites will rant about their own superior $$$ equipment but mot even one person will ever use speakers in a klippel matchine, they actually put them in a room! The horror. The cancelling of brands, the talking down to the customers, is bogus.
You need to measure what matters! Are the customers actually happy? Is the warranty honored? Most importantly is their an in home audition period?
I don’t need someone to tell me if I could or should like a product. My room is not a test bench, or a klippel machine. Who cares what the component measures by itself because unless its a clock radio I’ll never use it by itself, I have to interconnect it in a "system" with "high quality" cables, (as in all cables are not the same).
If you want to measure something measure how your personal system of curated components interact with your room. That’s it. The rest of the stuff you could forget because these days if a brand overpromises and under delivers they will be following a formula for losing money, an no company likes that.
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All of these bogus websites attempt to use click bait and label themselves as the "doorman" guarding the high quality club. When put under scrutiny they just move on to their next target using bogus measurements as "proof". In reality they are simply using measurements to promote their bogus opinions. |
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That is 4 strikes @kota1 , Hans Beekhuyzen is not an expert, I suspect he is not an expert on anything. That video does nothing to negate the work published by Golden Sound (which I came across when researching MQA a while back). If this is the best rebuttal to a very extensive test, that indicates to me that Golden Sound is probably right. You don't negate technical arguments with words, you negate them with technical arguments. As soon as Hans starts to call into question something as fundamental as Nyquist, you know he is highly unqualified to make any statement about the topic though he tries to recover by stating no one has proved him wrong. Not content to make himself look bad trying to call into question, Nyquist, he then starts talking about distortion and filters, claiming all filters make distortion. Marginally true, but also linear distortion, which we are much less sensitive too. Good thing or every speaker every made would sound horrible. Try comparing the linear distortion of a speaker to a DAC. Oh boy, that would be an eye opener for Hans! He then makes a statement that we should be using 192Khz, though no one seems to be even able to prove conclusively we need more than 44.1, but perhaps he is not aware of even the most basic things about DACs and ADCs that most of us working near the technology can pick up by osmosis. Maybe I am wrong, but I suspect Hans is not very technical. But all that aside, he makes the claim that most people prefer MQA to not using MQA. Funny story, but researching that is how I became more aware of Audiogon. I searched the web, and the most frequent comparison was Qobuz and Tidal. It was not overwhelming in Qobuz's favor, but significantly more preferred Qobuz in my non scientific internet review.
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