Oenology does exactly that. With the difference that oenologists mainly work in the audio… sorry wine industry. The person representing the audio reviewer, would be called a sommelier. The ASR bunch are certainly not in that business.
The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines.
Imagine doing a wine review as follows - samples of wines are assessed by a reviewer who measures multiple variables including light transmission, specific gravity, residual sugar, salinity, boiling point etc. These tests are repeated while playing test tones through the samples at different frequencies.
The results are compiled and the winner selected based on those measurements and the reviewer concludes that the other wines can't possibly be as good based on their measured results.
At no point does the reviewer assess the bouquet of the wine nor taste it. He relies on the science of measured results and not the decidedly unscientific subjective experience of smell and taste.
That is the ASR approach to audio - drinking Kool Aid, not wine.
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Common sense science and real experience indicated that the ASR set of measures cannot describe the sound experience of speakers nor the subjectivist evaluation in a living room...
Common sense and acoustics science with experiments said so... Objectivist are ideologue as prof just confirmed above and subjectivist are deluded in their own way... Acoustics set of conditions and parameters rules... |
@audition__audio do you have a link? |
There were two occasions. They were both some time ago. One was a few years ago when I was looking at processors, and I wanted to check out strictly measurements, so I can’t remember which one. I remember they flubbed one crucial metric, and it changed the ranking of that particular processor. I was floored, and I basically thought I can’t trust them for anything. |
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