Did Amir Change Your Mind About Anything?

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The ASR forum has certainly changed the way we look at audio and there’s no going back now.

Who is "we"? How has ASR changed audio? Do you think he was the first to take measurements?

Amir nearly always includes his own listening impressions at the end of each review.

If you’re not listening to every piece you measure, you have no way of correlating measurements with sonic results. That he can’t be bothered to listen to everything he measures speaks volumes about him, and his opinion of himself.

It’s just data, so my answer is no.

No different than other reviewers, Amir has his own bias.  Yet, some here seem to freak out at the mention of his name.  Earlier this year, Amir gave a positive review to the Hypex NCx500 Class D Amplifier.  This is likely to cause at least a few cases of internal consternation in people who have been waiting for a good-sounding, lower priced, class D amplifier, yet can’t bring themselves to purchase anything recommended by Amir.

No. It would be like getting advice about the best symphony halls to visit, from a person who learned to read their acoustic specifications in trade school, but never heard any of them because he never left his home town

I think that Amir, in a round about way, reminds us of how powerful our biases are. My friend’s 28 year old daughter loves sneakers.  She will see someone wearing a certain pair and salivate over them because she knows the back story. I don’t know the back story, so i just I just see an another pair of sneakers.  It just reminds me of how much our brain affects what we believe is important. I don’t know if it’s possible to separate them. 

Audio Science Review is entertaining to read at times. Some of their advice and analysis is interesting, yet at the end of the day, one either finds a piece of audio equipment desirable or undesirable.