If you want to point to specific examples to make your case
I think Amir needs to test equipment using transient methods. I think his tests mostly are done using frequency domain which is steady state. Most of stuffs in music happens in transient.
Why HiFi Gear Measurements Are Misleading (yes ASR talking to you…)
About 25 years ago I was inside a large room with an A-frame ceiling and large skylights, during the Perseid Meteor Shower that happens every August. This one time was like no other, for two reasons: 1) There were large, red, fragmenting streaks multiple times a minute with illuminated smoke trails, and 2) I could hear them.
Yes, each meteor produced a sizzling sound, like the sound of a frying pan.
Amazed, I Googled this phenomena and found that many people reported hearing this same sizzling sound associated with meteors streaking across the sky. In response, scientists and astrophysicists said it was all in our heads. That, it was totally impossible. Why? Because of the distance between the meteor and the observer. Physics does not allow sound to travel fast enough to hear the sound at the same time that the meteor streaks across the sky. Case closed.
ASR would have agreed with this sound reasoning based in elementary science.
Fast forward a few decades. The scientists were wrong. Turns out, the sound was caused by radiation emitted by the meteors, traveling at the speed of light, and interacting with metallic objects near the observer, even if the observer is indoors. Producing a sizzling sound. This was actually recorded audibly by researchers along with the recording of the radiation. You can look this up easily and listen to the recordings.
Takeaway - trust your senses! Science doesn’t always measure the right things, in the right ways, to fully explain what we are sensing. Therefore your sensory input comes first. You can try to figure out the science later.
I’m not trying to start an argument or make people upset. Just sharing an experience that reinforces my personal way of thinking. Others of course are free to trust the science over their senses. I know this bothers some but I really couldn’t be bothered by that. The folks at ASR are smart people too.
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@prof Amir listens all right, like when he listened to one Magnepan LRS, after he measured them like they were a small bookshelf speaker. |
No it's not. It was an example of a lazy argument I was flagging one not to fall in to, and therefore leaving it open to you to justify your position. I didn't foreclose that you had a good argument; I asked for the argument.
Sure, that's fine. Except that opinion offers no justification for your characterization of Amir's position, re any specific instance where he didn't listen. It still hangs in the air looking like a lazy dismissal, rather than engaging his reasons. Hence...my previous example remains relevant.
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