The ASR site is useless for anyone who enjoys music. The little minions and the minion leader only worship charts. The minion leader knows very little when it comes to listenin. He was a but a project manager.
I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged.
I just can't clear my head of this. I don't want to start a measurements vs listening war and I'd appreciate it if you guys don't, but I bought a Rogue Sphinx V3 as some of you may remember and have been enjoying it quite a bit. So, I head over to AVS and read Amir's review and he just rips it apart. But that's OK, measurements are measurements, that is not what bugs me. I learned in the early 70s that distortion numbers, etc, may not be that important to me. Then I read that he didn't even bother listening to the darn thing. That is what really bugs me. If something measures so poorly, wouldn't you want to correlate the measurements with what you hear? Do people still buy gear on measurements alone? I learned that can be a big mistake. I just don't get it, never have. Can anybody provide some insight to why some people are stuck on audio measurements? Help me package that so I can at least understand what they are thinking without dismissing them completely as a bunch of mislead sheep.
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@realworldaudio , I feel most of what you wrote is made up. I don't think you will be able to clearly articulate what is missing from the measurements and certainly not 95% of the things that are missing. Perhaps this is the issue. This sounds more like outrage mob mentality that reasonsed criticism. I am welcome to be proven wrong.
@realworldaudio I am still waiting for you to answer the above. You have not provided one missing measurement let alone the 95% missing you claim. You can do your own Google, I did. When you can list some of that missing 95% of measurements I will indulge your request.
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Many great thoughtful comments above most of which I completely agree with. I will say that I have enjoyed several of the ASR vids. No, not a fanboy and his overall opinions on sound quality are to be taken with a grain of salt. I don't care what he is measuring I just find it interesting in the sense of a procedural exercise. Regards, barts |
Back in the day amps strived for THD of .001. You can achieve that number by adding negative feedback, sometimes lots of negative feedback. But it turns out that amps sound better if negative feedback is reduced or eliminated. Just one example of a measurement that hurts sonic performance. |
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