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.
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. |
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 :-)
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We are not "brick and mortar." Madrona is has an office space and we rarely if ever meet with customers there. Our typical customer is an ultra high net worth individual who has no idea what or who ASR is. Or care one bit about this hobby. I don't recall a single instance of someone from ASR asking us to handle their custom project. Part of the reason is that Madrona just doesn't do smaller projects. There are some customers of Madrona by the way who also read and appreciate ASR. But they predate my creation of ASR Forum. There may also be customers we have gotten as a result of my reputation/ASR work but without my personal knowledge. 2-channel audio is just not our thing at Madrona. It is a cut-throat business and something we don't know how to do so we don't go after it. Kudos to other companies who know how to make a living out of it. We sell one lighting system and the cost can be as much as $100,000! We know how to do that. We don't know how how to sell a Wilson speaker for the same amount. I suggest you cut back on these accusations. It is totally improper to keep making things up that has to do with my reputation based on what is "improbable" to you. Not everyone does things in this industry because they want to make money. Learn that and move on. |
I don't care about the traffic or more users at the cost of setting a precedence that you can use our audience for commercial purposes. You seem to not understand the concept of having core principles that you stick to. I suggest you move on. |
@prof nice setup! I had Benchmark DAC 3 HGC it was nice but I liked the Bricasti M3 better. I’m just kidding…chillax…. |
