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

@texbychoice 

So lets agree that his $15K device worked at one time and he verified improved FR with measurements and listening.

Great.  So it's not a snake oil product.  And yet you'd quoted Amir saying it wasn't a snake oil product and implied it may as well have been.  That's the sneaky part I was getting at.

As to Amir's views on crossover parts - he's either right or wrong.  You don't decide this by continually calling him arrogant.  He walks the walk - puts up objective evidence for his claims.  Anyone is welcome to do likewise in debating any of his claims.   As for room treatment, again...you can take his claims to task...or not.  But  all the stuff about "ego" is a sideshow, and one only concentrates on that if they don't have a substantive argument against the claims.

I believe Amir linked to an ASR thread in which his arguments about room treatment are being critiqued in various ways, by people adducing technical claims, measured evidence etc.  So, maybe read on it, make up your own mind.

My own room has forms of room treatment, and I enjoy experimenting with it to achieve various goals.

 

Saying "anyone" on this forum needs to do scientific research is baseless and overstated. I do scientific research. I don't do things without research and some sort of basis in reality

Ah, what are examples of that scientific research?  Hopefully it is about audio since you brought it up here but do tell.

@amir_asr No it’s not about audio. I will tell, if you do tell why you closed Erin’s thread and allow others to remain up, and why you spam this forum with your ASR forum posts which lead to your "donation" requests. Do tell.

It's truly astonishing you are still here. Since you want to sell ASR and not deal with this, why are you wasting your time on this, unless you want to cross promote. This thread will keep getting longer an longer and people will see more and more of who you truly are. A dbag.

@prof Go on gearspace.com and ask if they use room treatment and to what effect. There are loads of examples of bass traps and treatments flattening out room modes introduced by the room. Same as any eq software. one is physical one is digital. Why is this so hard to prove? Ive see room correction work with my own two eyes with a D&D system and with room treatments 

@amir_asr 

Amir, what of the fact that all along, you have only been measuring just the electrical half of electromagnetism. Can you explain the loss of logic in basing your entire belief system on that?

 

kevin