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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
audition__audio
1,773 posts
 

I love it when Amir mentions Mr Hsu as being someone who is interested in learning. Learn from Amir? 

I have friends who have heard Mike's system and they were very impressed. If Amir had liked the system I would be very worried. 

I will say that I didnt think these speakers were as good as others, but have only heard them at shows.

devinplombier
1,642 posts
 

In fairness, when Amir got to sit in Mike's listening chair he changed his tune and said he liked the system. This suggests those speakers are quite directional.

 

audition__audio
1,773 posts
 

Well I am not so sure that any reviewer worth his salt would condemn a speaker off-axis. Might comment on off-axis response. 

andy2
1,619 posts
 

 IMHO his measurement selection still misses a number of relevant subtleties. Most notably the time domain performance of DACs and amplifiers, which are essentially not measured at all by instrumentation like the AP analyzers (they rely upon steady-state sine stimuli only).

+1. 

Time domain are much more difficult.  Steady state frequency response are a lot more easy to meaure.

 

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