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I Am Tired of Bogus Measurements

My expensive shoes have measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will they fit. My expensive new suit has measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will my expensive new shoes match.

The people being misled by measruements aren’t being led my manufacturers, they are being misled by reviewers. Idiotic rankings of digital gear based on measurements outside the range of human hearing. Cancelling entire brands who put out features customers actually want as they sell to humans, not bats. The worst of these websites will rant about their own superior $$$ equipment but mot even one person will ever use speakers in a klippel matchine, they actually put them in a room! The horror. The cancelling of brands, the talking down to the customers, is bogus.

You need to measure what matters! Are the customers actually happy? Is the warranty honored? Most importantly is their an in home audition period?
I don’t need someone to tell me if I could or should like a product. My room is not a test bench, or a klippel machine. Who cares what the component measures by itself because unless its a clock radio I’ll never use it by itself, I have to interconnect it in a "system" with "high quality" cables, (as in all cables are not the same).

If you want to measure something measure how your personal system of curated components interact with your room. That’s it. The rest of the stuff you could forget because these days if a brand overpromises and under delivers they will be following a formula for losing money, an no company likes that.

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The measurements you reference are typically proper, useful, and genuine. What is "bogus" as you say (not genuine) are those who use measurements as the final decider of truth these are the people who tell you that what you hear doesn’t matter and that we are deluded, living in a fantasy world, science deniers and similar insults, attacks, and abuse. What is particularly odd and indefensible is that these "meauremenalists" often don’t even listen to components that they review, promote, and admire and appreciate.

Do not blame the measurements for they are a useful tool just as what we hear is useful. Many of these You-Tube "reviewers" need to define themselves in a way to appear special, unique, and distinctive and emphasizing measurements and expensive testing tools is one way to achieve that. I also note, observe, and recognize that nearly all of these You-Tubers have massive, dominating egos and that gets in the way of their logic which is so often flawed, compromised, and deceptive.

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