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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
amir_asr
777 posts
 

Where amir presents measurements clinically and without bias, well and good.
a service.

That’s what my reviews are like on ASR. They are heavy on data and few words in between translating what the data says. I used to not say anything about recommending or not recommending a device but members strongly asked for that so I put it in there. But I also have a poll for members to vote to agree or disagree.

Further, every review is a discussion thread allowing people to again, agree or disagree, express their likes and dislikes (product or my review), and importantly add a lot of knowledge of information on their own.

How that can be "abusive" when it is exactly what you are asking, is a mystery to be solved.

mapman's avatar
mapman
22,355 posts
 

Anyhow in conclusion, no I don’t think Amir has changed my mind about anything. I have found useful information on his site that will help my decision making when buying though and look forward to what all he might review in the future. He is a reviewing machine for sure. The metrics say he produces more reviews faster than most anyone else and I respect that as long as the quality does not take a back seat..

amir_asr
777 posts
 

@mahgister 

About this matterc the two most influential philosopher of the last century are Merleau_Ponty, and the mathematician turned philosopher Husserl... 

Let me ask you to ponder this: as something achieves speed of light, time for it stops relative to us who are stationary (Einstein's theory of special relativity).  In that regard, a photon of light that has been traveling for billions of years since the big bang, gets to our eyes in an instant, as far as the consciousness of the photons is concerned.  At one moment it is at big bang and at the very same moment, it hits your eyes through a telescope!  Do you understand the ramifications of this for fidelity of audio?

 

somethingsomethingaudio
116 posts
 

@amir_asr 

Clearly it does bother you. You are still here. LAUGH OUT LOUD. You have explained everything you ever could about what your website does, and revealed everything it doesnt do through your snobbery. The fact that you cant see your elitism shows you have a blindspot the size of Texas. You just want the last word which you don't seem to be getting. 

somethingsomethingaudio
116 posts
 

Here is a "review" from ASR. Amir doesn't even share whether he would recommend it. Just says vote with your eyes.

A company sends you a $20,000 test pair and you can't even be bothered to listen. 

"As I noted, due to lack of time, I do not have listening impressions for you." How the @#!$ do you evaluate a speaker without that? I would love to see a car review without driving it. Astonishing.

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