It is not an impenetrable mystery to not confuse and distinguish the use of certain tools with scientific activity as such.(marketing context is not science context)
It is not a mystery to note that Amir proposes more than useful measurements for all, to which I have no objection; but when Amir claims conflate his measurements of certain aspects of electronic design as the only objective and exhaustive description of acoustic perception and the process of qualification and interpretation of qualias, it become an ideological and not a scientific act.
If we analyze the roots of Amir’s thought as Kunchur did in his critique, we notice his misunderstanding of the foundations of psycho-acoustics and the meaning of the mathematical tools used (well explained by Van Maanen concretely in design questions articles) . In other words, Amir presupposes a theory of hearing subordinated to insufficient tools then a false theory of hearing and more just a non ecological theory of hearing.
When you said that we have no model of hearing now with the right mathematical tools you are right and you repeated Van Maanen points.
When you claim that there is more than marketing and interesting verification of design specs by measures in ASR you are wrong because you diplomatically forget or put under the rug their ideology : hearing main problem is already solved , our technology solved it, all there is to do with human perception is to eliminate it from the straight road ahead of us with the "rightful" set of measures we already have here in ASR .
Kunchur is less diplomatic calling Amir a "guru" but there is truth here in this qualification ....I call him more politely a marketer of ASR.
i am interested by hearing theory which is always a deep mystery for science in spite of technological success, like consciousness mystery escape science in spite of LLM success save for the marketers in need of money and reputation. Wolfram just declared human consciousness is only the result of the Ruliad computation...
Then Amir proposal is not just pure acoustics/psycho-acoustics ignorance as Kunchur easily demonstrated or Van Maanen, it is the reflection of the ideology that is dominating our world right now. it is a good idea to replace old audiophiles site as the only trustful to pick gear and evaluating it. I had nothing against Amir marketing and measure, i am against calling this "science". Truth matter.
So maybe you are saying with your capitalized "SOME" that Amir is not fully quantifying what is possible for audio equipment design? Maybe, sure, but what is the alternative? We just don’t have a design or testing methodology that shows any particular new design pathways other than, well, it might be valuable to use higher sampling rates than the Nyquist theory claims?
I still don’t see any there there... Per my final paragraph, we just have to wait and be mildly skeptical. If there is a way to better use "Hearing theory rule acoustics..." we don’t have any model yet. There’s no ideology or marketing (which you are using incorrectly since ASR doesn’t sell anything), just cautious skepticism.
