@oberoniaomnia I respect your opinion. As a marine biologist do you think that Amir testing commercially available audio gear is in the same category of scientific work as an NSF funded project to understand how physical, chemical and biological processes mediate carbon transfer in and out of the sea surface, or a Sea Grant funded study of how plankton might affect oxygen levels in eutrophic coastal waters? I suggest that if Amir were to submit a proposal to a competitive science or engineering funding organization claiming what he does on ASR somehow qualifies as “science” he would not get past the first round.
I read Amir’s reviews and look at his charts comparing different components and find it interesting. But it is not “science”. I never said that TAS reviews are remotely scientific, or even unbiased. Stereophile often combines subjective reviews based on listening with independent machine measurements - is that “kinda scientific”? No, it’s not, it’s just a combination of subjective and objective measurements. I find the name “Audio Science Review” pretentious, inaccurate and mistakenly bestowing the reviews with the mystique of expanding the boundaries of our understanding when in fact Amir is just functioning as a dude with some measurement devices and a lot of time on his hands. His professional work for Microsoft and others advancing digitally reproduced sound may more rightly qualify as “science”, I don’t know enough about it. His work at ASR, not so much.
if you tried different cables and they did nothing for you, be happy, you are saving a lot of money. As for me, I’m going to turn off my phone, open a bottle from the bottom shelf of my wine rack with the sticky note on it that says “ask” and enjoy drinking it while listening to my digital front end without reminding myself that it measured well in Amir’s tests or that the new power cable on my power conditioner is making everything sound better.
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