I watched a few of Amir's videos. I was more interested in smelling my own finger.
You may or may not be able to measure what my finger smells like, but you can't tell me whether or not I like it.
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.
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@prof I don’t think I saw anyone say Amir was the only rude one. Amir continually points out why everyone else is wrong, but him. How is that possible? It’s not. From the first comment he made on this thread, it has been him telling everyone why they are wrong while avoiding any hard hitting questions. He then spams links to his website, and promotes himself all the while saying no forum allows that which is why he has to ban other people on his website who do what he does and shuts down threads. He then claims that this is because they are on YouTube and it needs to stay on Youtube. BS. He doesnt like the competition. @soundfield pointed to two old posts Amir made one was about how he didnt level match here is the quote
And the other was from his own companies website where he promotes at the time $50,000 per pair amplifiers which he still uses in his system. You can see it in the picture he posted in this very discussion. He has not reviewed the very amp that is in his reference system as far as I can tell. He has not addressed any of the above. Why the change of heart? He claims to be this objective evangelist, but you dont get to claim that while ignoring a different story of the past. The lack of accountability on his part is remarkable. I don’t run a website promoting data and objectivity when he consistently avoids the harder hitting questions and denies any other people of his ilk to talk about their methods on his website. Erin was banned. @amir_asr How do you promote rigorous ABX testing when you admit you did not do that in the past? How do you not have numbers up for your current amp? |
So you need Amir to admit he's wrong in order to accept his arguments? How many people in this thread have admitted to being wrong? He's either right or wrong, based on his arguments. It's possible everyone else is wrong. I mean, a geologist could show up in a flat earth forum and, yes, he'd be right and everyone else would be wrong. So that's neither here nor there, in principle. So you can't just complain about that, you have to anty up and make your own case against his.
I disagree. Far from "ignoring" hard hitting questions, he's done a pretty amazing job of answering people, and providing much more substantiation for his claims in his answers than anyone else in the thread. I'm not saying Amir is perfect or some objective Deity. I'm just observing the quality of the arguments here, and Amir is providing the higher quality arguments thus far.
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