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


Imagine doing a wine review as follows - samples of wines are assessed by a reviewer who measures multiple variables including light transmission, specific gravity, residual sugar, salinity, boiling point etc.  These tests are repeated while playing test tones through the samples at different frequencies.

The results are compiled and the winner selected based on those measurements and the reviewer concludes that the other wines can't possibly be as good based on their measured results.  

At no point does the reviewer assess the bouquet of the wine nor taste it.  He relies on the science of measured results and not the decidedly unscientific subjective experience of smell and taste.

That is the ASR approach to audio - drinking Kool Aid, not wine.

toronto416

I see the same mistakes being made again.

Being against ASR is not the equivalent of being against measurement. Hold up a dac in your hand. It is a product of pure science, and engineer. To say that we don't trust science or data is pure nonsense.

I said it in one of my earlier post, everyone at ASR wants data and measurement but then something magical happen, they wait for subjective reviews and user experience.

Let's go back to the extreme basic. In Amir's testings, all cables proved to be the exact same. To be as frank as I possibly can, anyone with a decent system and 2 functioning ears would know this to be false. CABLES DO MATTER and if your test says otherwise, your test is wrong.

If you can't do a cable measurement. What exactly can you reliably measure?

devin I cant remember where I saw a photo of his system. It may have been when Amir was responding to ASR related posts on Audiogon and I may have found it clicking on his monicker and then system specifics.  All I can tell you is that it appeared to me that he placed his system along a long vacant wall, not purposefully, and that he had a big screen TV between the speakers. 

 

 

@audition__audio 

A couple years back, Amir was said to have Mark Levinson monoblocks driving Revel Salon 2s in his personal system.

I haven't seen a picture so I can't comment on positioning etc.

But I wouldn't be ashamed to have that gear in my house :)