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

@samureyex 

While I wouldn’t characterize myself as “ an ASR supporter”, I do think ASR has provided valuable insight in several areas.  

1) DACs - Providing consistent measurements for every DAC they test is helpful, though as others have suggested, these are useful data points that are certainly not exhaustive with respect to how DACs actually sound.

2) Power conditioning products - As I mentioned previously, this is an area of the industry where I believe there is a fair amount of misinformation and even fraud.  So I think some of the work ASR has done here has helped prevent some audiophiles from spending money on products that may have no - or even negative - effects on the sound of their systems.

3) Network switches - Same as power conditioning products, only more.

@samureyex @jrareform 

LOL! ASR s faulted for evaluating equipment based on measurements (which are actually relevant to audio such as frequency response, distortion), and then you adduce measurements that are INaudible (capacitance, resistance, maybe also color?) to support your claim of differences? LOL!!! Can you tell from listening that cable has 10 µOhm/m vs 20 µOhm/m? (no idea about actual values, as they are irrelevant to audibility). 

The real question is, are those different values audible, i.e. human perceptible? ASR makes excellent case that they are not, based on measurements that are RELEVANT to audio. That is why Amir makes frequent reference to threshold of hearing to put measurements into context of human experience.

Yes, Amir uses equipment that can measure differences way below the threshold of hearing, which is good scientific practice. Make sure you can possibly show differences relevant to the question at hand above noise floor of measuring equipment. I use scanning electron microscopy to look at 1–10 µm structures, although light microscopy could theoretically resolve down to 250 nm; in practice less due to diffraction, but that's a different story.

Re burden of proof, of course, nobody HAS to do anything. This is in context of scientific hypothesis testing, and there H0 is always no difference. Without having to show anything, scientifically there is no difference. QED.

ASR provides a helpful ’yardstick’ of objective measurements. In a world where many are either forced or choose to buy components that they cannot audition, I believe ASR provides a valuable service. And even for those of us who have had a chance to audition prospective purchases, when caught betwixt and between two pieces of gear based on our subjective evaluations, again, ASR provides a helpful yardstick. Cheers!

What are the possible aspects of music you can hear?
Frequency
Amplitude
Duration
Accuracy to original signal

These are exceptionally easy to test, the flavor of wine is impossible to test we don't even know exactly how taste or smell actually work. 
Audio is simple to test and duration is the part of physics that mankind is the most adept at, musicality, fluffy descriptions of ambiguous terms only cost you money and show how gullible we are.

@donavabdear 

i’ve never thought about it in that way and that’s an interesting perspective. Not sure I completely agree with the conclusion, but certainly an interesting premise