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

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.

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

 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.

For me, this Audiogon forum is a good place; the other night I tried to reply on ASR to a gentleman who was asking for opinions, intended as subjective listening impressions, on the Straight Wire Crescendo and Acoustic Zen speaker cables. I was assailed by many members of that forum asking if I had performed double-blind tests and that, in any case, numerous scientific papers demonstrated that the only parameter that matters in speaker cables is resistance. Otherwise, all cables sound the same, as long as they're not broken or too thin. They called me a troll. I had to delete myself from that forum, and with great pleasure. This is my experience. I'd never been called a "troll. 
Being attacked by aggressive people creates nervousness and resentment in the guest, leading to abandonment. It's precisely the climate that's poisonous, even before the scientific "method." IMHO