Having no interest in this product I have not looked at the review. On this product ASR's opinion may be valid, or not. Amir however appears to be of the opinion that due to his correlation between testing results and actual sound then his testing and measurements are totally predictive, if it measures well, it must sound good. The problem is nobody knows what you hear, only you, nobody can tell you what you like, only you. I hate (ad nauseam) horn speakers, never heard one I like, I have friends who love them, so I keep trying and hoping but to no avail, it doesn't matter to either what they measure like I hate them, they love them. Trying to be completely objective about something that is essentially subjective is not scientific.
Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit
I bounce between various kinds of analysis — more subjective listening reports, more quantitative measurement analyses and, my favorite, those that combine both strategies to tell a useful story about audio products.
Amir of ASR has just done a very powerful takedown of a fairly inexpensive kit being sold by Danny at GR Research. Not only does he prove his point about the speakers, he also makes (to my mind) a very convincing case that Danny put his finger on the scale in how he reported his own measurements.
I'm not in any camp — Danny's or Amir's or anyone else's. What I appreciate is thoroughness and meticulousness in exposition. Danny does that in his own videos. (Again -- to me. I'm really still learning and cannot easily spot gaps in argument in this subject matter.)
I know people with some of GR's best kits — and I've heard one of them. They sounded incredible. I've watched a bunch of Danny's videos where he criticizes other companies; I've come away thinking, "Wow, he really revealed some of the grift embedded in that product."
But here, the tables are turned, it seems, on Danny. I hope he responds, both to defend his reputation and methods, but also because it will set in relief where some of the distance may be between these two dominant online figures' methods in assessing what makes for a good speaker.