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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.

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What are the possible aspects of music you can hear?
Frequency
Amplitude
Duration
Accuracy to original signal

These are exceptionally easy to test, the flavor of wine is impossible to test we don't even know exactly how taste or smell actually work. 
Audio is simple to test and duration is the part of physics that mankind is the most adept at, musicality, fluffy descriptions of ambiguous terms only cost you money and show how gullible we are.


 

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