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

First, here is this recent Audiogon thread about uber-Audiophile Mike Lavigne’s lavish audio barn

Then, here is audio infidel Amir’s scandalous visit to Mike’s barn. Six-figure-system man visits seven-figure-system man!

Mild snark aside, it went better than you’d think. And the ASR peanut gallery was a lot less foaming-at-the-mouth than expected.

Goes to show that things don’t have to be so black and white in this world.

Next up on the evening news: Republican has dinner at Democrat’s home!! Yeah I know I’m one day late with that one

I love it when Amir mentions Mr Hsu as being someone who is interested in learning. Learn from Amir? 

I have friends who have heard Mike's system and they were very impressed. If Amir had liked the system I would be very worried. 

I will say that I didnt think these speakers were as good as others, but have only heard them at shows.

In fairness, when Amir got to sit in Mike's listening chair he changed his tune and said he liked the system. This suggests those speakers are quite directional.

Well I am not so sure that any reviewer worth his salt would condemn a speaker off-axis. Might comment on off-axis response. 

 IMHO his measurement selection still misses a number of relevant subtleties. Most notably the time domain performance of DACs and amplifiers, which are essentially not measured at all by instrumentation like the AP analyzers (they rely upon steady-state sine stimuli only).

+1. 

Time domain are much more difficult.  Steady state frequency response are a lot more easy to meaure.