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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Showing 4 responses by mahgister

 

Right!

Polarising people in two opposed groups is the best way to win an audience... In many aspects of life...

 

ASR, I think by design, takes a fairly extreme and militant stance precisely to get responses. Not a question of being pertinent rather one of being hard to ignore.

 

 

Calling an audio marketing ideology "science" reflect a tendency of our  dominated social fabric...

Arguing about the sound quality of our gear at least make an appeal to our hearing  sense, educated or not, trained or not...

 

Acoustics rules which include psycho-acoustics...

my ears rules in my designed room...

 

Common sense science and real experience indicated that the ASR set of measures cannot describe the sound experience of speakers nor the subjectivist evaluation in a living room...

 

 Common sense and acoustics science with experiments said so...

Objectivist are ideologue  as prof just confirmed above and subjectivist are deluded in their own way...

Acoustics  set of conditions and parameters  rules...

I cannot understand subjectivist audiophiles or objectivists either...

 

 Acoustics measures by ears and tools matter first and last even over the pieces of gear design because any piece of well done designed gear is replaceable, The room and ears are not.