Did Amir Change Your Mind About Anything?

Archimago’s Musings is an interesting site to dip into now and again. Detailed analysis on varied interesting audio topics can regularly be found there.

Then there’s Erin, at Erin’s Audio Corner YouTube channel. Like Amir he also employs a Klippel Near Field Scanner to provide data to back up his reviews. Erin is also not one to hold back from any criticisms if and when he discovers possible issues.

Wholeheartedly agree on those two.

@audphile1 

You don't seem to appreciate that these are not private conversations.  It's a forum, designed so that anyone who wants to can comment...on anything someone else says in a thread.

Best to  make peace with this fact if you want to post in public forums.

"if you observe how blindly the minions follow their master and read Amir’s posts on this thread, you will realize that this limited minded group of people for whom using their own head for anything other than eating is too much of a burden, need the Amirs of this world with their oscilloscopes to guide them in their decision making process."

Nothing remotely like this is true.  Every review I post gets criticism from membership on ASR forum.  This is almost without exception!  Members are highly knowledgeable and critique any and all aspects of the review.  I feel like I am taking a final exam in college and getting graded on every review I do!

That is what objective data allows people to do: they can examine the information the same way I would.  This is quite different than a subjectivist reviewer claiming this and that track sounded good on this and that device.  You do not share that experience so no way to challenge the reviewer on any basis.  Not so when I post a measurement.

Members also are also free to challenge me with their own testing as happened recently over of all things, a $35 dongle that converted XLR to RCA.  Another engineer bought a unit and has created his own tests.

Members also bring their own criteria for whether a unit is recommended or not.  There is a multi-choice poll for every review where members opine whether they agree or not with my final conclusion.

Finally, it strains credibility that hundreds of thousands of your peers are dumb and blindly follow something.  It actually takes a lot to convince them of anything.

Really, spend a few minutes on the site before forming these blind conclusions and talking points.

There is one thing i like about Amir investigation...

It debunk the myth and magic marketing LINEAR link between S.Q. and price tag...There is none...

For example in dac... Dac is a mature technology, and we can now afford a very good one at relatively low price...

And in my acoustic experiments i discovered that improving acoustic is way more powerful than upgrading cables or dac or amplifier and sometimes even speakers...( if you have basic good one to begin with for sure)

By the way i am neither objectivist or subjectivist, no more than Gulliver was egg small ender or big ender...

Acoustic is key for me...But how can we criticize someone giving to us more information to digest ? I will not...

«I measure temperature in my ears before listening»--Groucho Marx audiophile 🤓