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

@thyname no there is no rule against coming back 16 times. 

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I would never believe anything from you sir nor any one else for that matter. 

I do not follow blindly like your cult at ASR. @amir_asr 

 I recently tested three JPS Labs cables.  I listened to all three and they sounded different from my generic cables.  Bad news for fans your camp is that the generic cables sounded better in all these tests.  Thousands of dollars in cabling beat by less than $50 in generic cables.  Are you going to believe this assessment?

amir_asr

... Somehow you are too good for it whereas the rest of the industry is not ... Instead of trying so hard to stay confused, why not pay attention ... If you can’t reliably tell the cables apart, then don’t come and ask others to chase ferries. If you can, then you would have done something really useful ...

More ad hominem, appeal to authority, and bandwagon fallacies  from a measurementalist. As for the "chasing ferries" remark - you’re getting more and more colorful. Perhaps science is not your calling.

@amir_asr, thank you for taking the time to provide clear and unvarnished responses to my questions. Much appreciated.

From reading through many test results on the ASR website, it appears to me that achieving ultra-low SINAD performance is almost trivial for good line-level electronics, but not so much for power amps. Am I not interpreting the test results correctly, or is this true? If true, is this issue due to the amount of gain required?

Thanks again.

@amir_asr ’I listened to all three and they sounded different from my generic cables. Bad news for fans your camp is that the generic cables sounded better in all these tests’.

Sorry, but these are all great news. First, you have listened something, than, there are differences, and most important, the cheapest cable was the ’best’. Does it mean that we all should buy generic cables? I guess even you would not suggest something like that. As long as there are others cables to try, depending on our will and budget, we might (or not) find something better

I have never met anybody who wants to spend more money on something that sounds worse. Why on earth would you claim that I or anybody else should be sorry about that particular result?

I know of many such cases, where less expensive products (cables or gear), even from the same brand, sound better than their more expensive, newer or so called ’better’ products

As for the ’blind tests’. Believe it or not, I know of few cases whrere with my open eyes I could not tell the difference between two very different products. After I lived and listened them for a while I could, easily, in the context of my system. They were of the same price and I could care less which one I would buy at the end

@prof We are not discussing ethics or moral philosphy. Perception of hi fi is prone to interpretation, Hi fi set up does not have some objective standard that can be measured or set as a goal to achieve. In that regard we may have very different views on how we interpret what we hear. But, dont patronise me by telling me that is all product of my vivid imagination. On the other hand, here is another food for your thought. Event if it is (only imagination), I find it pretty consistent...hard to believe, isnt it?