Did Amir Change Your Mind About Anything?

Edit: As I said earlier, I don’t begrudge anyone making money as long as they are honest with their audience (or in Amir’s case, honest with themselves). Amir will say he makes a comment on all his reviews that his company sells Revel and that’s all the disclaimer he needs. I agree.  But he chastises every single other reviewer who does essentially the same (i.e., advertising, YouTube monetization, affiliate links which are labeled clearly, etc). 

This is wrong on multiple fronts:

1. I don't chastise youtubers for making money.  I am an avid viewer of youtube product reviews which without exception are monetized multiple ways as you state.

2. I never put any link or other information for people to buy any product from me or my company.  I don't even say what my company does unless asked.

3. Every review immediately starts with the source of the product: member loan, my own purchase or company.  Almost no other audio reviewer I know does this.  

4. ASR has incredible potential for monetization given our massive traffic and number of products I review.  But I will not go there.  I don't need the money and certainly don't need to have it cloud the transparency of the reviews. 

A couple of days ago a company offered me money to get their gear tested sooner and I told them NO!

5. As a policy and core principle, we will NOT allow our people to try to monetize our traffic/membership for their own interest.  This is a universal rule that is heavily enforced by other forums.  We are actually more lenient to a fault here.  Go ahead and spam this forum with sponsored links and see  how long you last.

Bottom line, you are completely out of line with your comparison.  

given our massive traffic and number of products I review.

So why do you spend practically your entire valuable time posting here? Instead of your own site which you own in full with practically saint like features 🤦‍♂️

‘Help me understand what’s happening on this thread…

A couple of days ago a company offered me money to get their gear tested sooner and I told them NO!

You are so nice. Like I said, a saint 🥰

Go ahead and spam this forum with sponsored links and see how long you last.

What do you mean? You have lasted here way too long with your propaganda, promoting your own site. Nobody is kicking you out from promoting another sales  site (albeit disguised as “science”)

@amir_asr How much money do you make from donations to your site or donations you request on every review you post? Interesting you leave that out. You won’t answer because you don’t monetize anything and you don’t need money living in a multimillion dollar waterfront home. 

Time to move on.

All the best,
Nonoise

Amir, I don't care how you make your money.  I for one do think you do it for the intellectual challenge and a sense of being honest and logical.  For good, not evil.  :)

That being said...

This is a highly specialized speaker that has poor general purpose. People fall in love with its spatial qualities due to dipole design and tall image it provides. So not surprised you speak as if it is perfect. But perfect it is not. Not remotely so.

I never said the LRS was perfect. It IS a perfect example of where measurements fail.

And again, you measured the speakers first and THEN listened?

Putting the cart before the horse and insuring your measurement philosophy bias.

So not only are measurements next to useless to determine how things sound but going by your biased limited view of a great speaker based on measurements could actually turn curious audiophiles away from a wonderful SOUNDING speaker.

So in fact, rather than doing a service here, you are doing a disservice.

And it’s amazing how I spoke all this truth without any impressive looking charts.

And now I’m left wondering even about cables........the one simple? thing that might make sense.