Did Amir Change Your Mind About Anything?


It’s easy to make snide remarks like “yes- I do the opposite of what he says.”  And in some respects I agree, but if you do that, this is just going to be taken down. So I’m asking a serious question. Has ASR actually changed your opinion on anything?  For me, I would say 2 things. I am a conservatory-trained musician and I do trust my ears. But ASR has reminded me to double check my opinions on a piece of gear to make sure I’m not imagining improvements. Not to get into double blind testing, but just to keep in mind that the brain can be fooled and make doubly sure that I’m hearing what I think I’m hearing. The second is power conditioning. I went from an expensive box back to my wiremold and I really don’t think I can hear a difference. I think that now that I understand the engineering behind AC use in an audio component, I am not convinced that power conditioning affects the component output. I think. 
So please resist the urge to pile on. I think this could be a worthwhile discussion if that’s possible anymore. I hope it is. 

chayro

They were no mere "tweaks" as you sarcastically claim..

They were mostly a balance between absorbtion/reflection/and diffusion materials for my room..

I used a grid of Helmholtz resonators of my own making and my own method to increase and inmprove my speakers soundfield performance ... It was not perfect but there was no comparison between before and after...

Then instead of mocking my experiments successful for me in acoustic at no costs, why not answering me about the Magnasco and Oppenheim experiments about hearing and the uncertainty limit and his implication for audio improvement...

Why not answering the articles and video of Dr, Hans Van Maanen?

You resort to ad hominem mocking me as arguments ? Do you think when i post these photos that i was afraid of idiots mocking me on apperance ? 😊

my room was unesthetical but very revelatory about the power of acoustic treatment and control...

other interesting post of you ?

Loosing my house and room, i was sad but i modified akg K340 headphone and i am very happy listening music again thanks to Dr.Gorike for this amazin successful hybrid headphone..

 

@mahgister

 

I’m curious: what happened to the photos of your virtual system on Audiogon?

The...uh...very interesting layout of your tweaks?

 

@amir_asr You continue to ignore my questions surrounding why Erin’s video thread was closed and locked? Please don’t reply with you didn’t take down the video. I never insinuated that. I want to know why you closed a thread you detailed yourself.

As for the monetizing your business, my point was when I first found your website and liked the reviews I found Madrona and saw that you carry them. If I’ve done that others have. You mean to tell me you have never earned a single penny from a commercial or residential contract for your brick and mortar business that was referred by ASR. I find that highly improbable.

If you don’t care about money which I again don’t believe or one millisecond, and it’s not a motivator then why do you care if a video from YouTube is on your website. It only gives you more users and traffic. Puzzling.

 

@mahgister 

I'm sorry to hear of the circumstances that led to the change in your system!

I'm glad you can still enjoy audio.

We dont listen sine wave function in real life...

Well, if you did, you think your system will refuse to play it?  It doesn't know the difference between that sine wave or music, right?  So if it screws up sine wave, it reasons that it also screws up music.  BTW, I test with many other signals.  I already showed you multitone:

If you listen to this signal, it will actually sound like organ music.  You see that "bad stuff?"  Measurements are telling you that they are stomping on your low level detail.  

@audphile1

FWIW, my system:

Joseph Audio Perspective 2 Graphene speakers

Thiel 2.7 Speakers.

(I’ve owned or used plenty of speakers, from MBL, to various ,Audio Physic, Von Schweikert, Waveform, Hales, Harbeth, Spendor and many others, but I’ve pruned down my collection).

Conrad Johnson Premier 12 monoblocks

CJ Premier 16LS2 preamp

Benchmark LA4 preamp

Benchmark DAC2L

Bluenode music server (ripped lossless CDs/Tidal)

Transrotor Fat Bob S turntable/Acoustic Solid 12" arm/Benz Micro Ebony L cartridge. JE Audio HP10 phono stage.

Degritter Ultra Sonic record cleaner.

Listening room was re-constructed with the input of a professional acoustician.  Sounds amazing.

Hope that helps your curiosity :-)