Did Amir Change Your Mind About Anything?

@ghdprentice +1!

When I first started reading this thread, I was thinking about writing virtually the same post. I think ASR is doing a significant disservice to our hobby by convincing many new to the hobby that measurements are all that matters. 
 

i think measurements are a helpful tool for development and an invaluable tool for manufacturing (ensuring unit to unit consistency), but the simplistic measurements done by Amir are all but worthless for determining what products will work well in my own system. 
 

To be honest, I have not visited the site in the last year or so since I did not want to do anything that might improve their visibility to new prospective audiophiles. 
 

Did Amir Change Your Mind About Anything?

To answer the OP question: a resounding NO. But that’s just me.

What you guys don’t realize (or perhaps you do 😉), this thread does one thing: more (free) advertising for Amir. And that’s exactly what prominent YouTubers want, free publicity. As they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity 

Having recently spent a considerable sum ($35k) to put a nice system together, I had the itch to spend a few thousand on a power conditioner, until I watched a few of Amir's videos on YouTube. Right or wrong, I never pulled the trigger and have stayed with my $99 Audioquest power strip. My power amp and sub are connected straight into the wall. The noise floor has been quiet from day 1, so I convinced myself that I didn't have a problem to solve. Who knows what the future holds?

@gosta 

my system belongs to ASR’s absolute favorites and gives me a listening quality few will ever experience. 

How about posting your system components as your virtual system?

ASR hasn't just changed my mind on things such as the importance of measurements, the respect for the science of audio (Toole, Olive, Choueri, Barton, Shaw etc), the acknowledgment of the work done by professional broadcasting manufacturers (Genelec, KEF, Neumann etc) it's also changed the way more and more reviewers are now recognising the increasing need to back up their subjective opinions with hard science.

@gosta 

Most I think he should get some thanks for fighting the industry.

Absolutely he should.

Unlike almost virtually every other reviewer he relies almost solely upon the goodwill and kind donations of his readers. The ASR forum has certainly changed the way we look at audio and there's no going back now.

Of course some manufacturers and dealers will always be less than pleased with his conclusions, and we should expect that as they are trying to push product. Selling is their business - numbers, units, turnover, dollars, pounds etc.

However, for us the potential consumer, it's all good news. Highly detailed and backed up with a generous presentation courtesy of the Klippel NFS technology. Technology that the likes of Ascend Acoustics are now employing in the development of future loudspeakers

Lastly, lest we forget, Amir nearly always includes his own listening impressions at the end of each review.

What's not to like?