Before Thyname or anyone else starts to insult me as a shill for Amir, let me state I'm not a member of his site. I didn't even know who or what ASR was a year ago. According to some members I committed the ultimate sin by suggest Amir was right about something. Anyway, as for measurements, I don't think it's correct to say they are "bogus". They are clearly showing something, but weather or not that something is important could be debatable. A lot of this bickering could be put to rest is more manufactures would simply publish their own measurements to back up their claims? For example, PS Audio makes this statement about the PP 20. "The P20 features an ultra-low impendance analog power amplifier and FPGA based DSD engine that delivers the cleanest, lowest noise sine waves of any regenerator in the world." So would it kill them to includes some with and without test results that back up the statement? Low hanging fruit for Amir? Just pointing out the obvious?
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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@yoyoyaya can you provide evidence to the contrary? |
@bigtwin :
Why not join his site? Maybe you can find the holy Grail , what you are looking for? World will be a better place?
I agree. Putting in my watch list what ASR bashes, and avoiding what they recommend works very well for me. For the past 20 years
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Thanks for asking me for a link, here is one I chose for this reply. What you have in audio is a "system" where one variable can impact everything in a chain. Take your $500 DAC which you know rules because it measured great, connect it to your $750 preamp that is "best in class", measured great and what does it sound like? It won’t be the same in my room as it will in my neighbors BECAUSE of the variables of the chain. Here is a link to one variable, the interconnection cable: In essence a simple change in the capacitance of a cable can change the quality of the sound. Now, multiply that times every interconnection in your system and those measurements on the BENCH were hit the fan. The general public would be better served auditioning it for themselves with 0 expectation bias with a return policy. |
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