The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines.

It would be really cool if somebody who wanted to criticize ASR could do it without strawmen.

1. Amir DOES listen to every loudspeaker and comment on the sound.   He also reports whether a speaker that doesn’t measure well can be ameliorated or not with EQ
2. You have left out something rather important: everything you said about testing on objective measures would actually make sense IF those objective measures have been carefully studied and correlated to find out that these characteristics correspond very well to what most people rate very highly in terms of the taste of wine.  Then of course measuring wine would make plenty of sense.

And this is the case with loudspeakers.  It’s like so many audiophiles imagined that measurements are just plucked out of the air for no reason at all.  The whole point of measurements is that they have been correlated to how things sound.  That’s the point of measurements!   And scientific study has shown that certain measurements correlate to what most people will rate as higher quality.  No it doesn’t mean you have to write the sound quality as high.  But then it’s the case with every single review ever written, subjective or otherwise, that you might not like the speaker yourself.

But it’s completely rational for somebody to use measurements that have been correlated to good sound as a way to winnow out the loudspeakers that they are going to spend time pursuing.

Among a myriad of other complaints, I simply don’t have any confidence that ASR as a publication knows good sound.

Now that alcohol has been classed as a group 1 carcinogen, measuring it may be much safer than subjectively evaluating it.

Double yawn. Weak analogies add no value. 

+1 @mulveling