Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama

Can you provide links to the YouTubers involved in this?  Tough to comment on this either way without seeing the review and speaker involved.  Definitely disturbing on its face though.

I personally like our adorable Schiit Lords, Jason Stoddard/Mike Moffat’s adorable approach in all of this...Attach a 20 page audio precision measurement report for all your product in the specs page. Any buffoon measuring it in his garage and running a buffoon review website couldn’t do a better job (Come get your measurements directly from the horse’s mouth kids.)

The Tekton man should just post comprehensive measurements for all his speakers on his website. 

Again I looked at the measurements and thought they were better than expected but my expectations were pretty low.
the thread can be read here.
https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/tekton-m-lore-speaker-review.48732/

Has anyone ever wondered why a middle eastern dude thinks he’s a Chinese chick (in all these years)? It’s quite strange.

There are ways to assess and compare products thoroughly. It can be based on both subjective opinions and/or objective data. Those are the reviews I like. They help inform me as a buyer.

As long as that, I don’t mind if the reviewer then gives their own personal thumb’s up or thumb’s down determination. THey did the work and are entitled to that. But that’s just their personal opinion based on the data. Others may well judge differently. That’s just how things work.

There are a core set of measurements - FR, Soundpower, directivity, dispersion, waterfall, etc that a) in combination b) if one knows how to interpret them and c) has enough points of reference, could get one into a fairly good ballpark of whether it it matches his tastes (or not) and how it could work out in his room (or not). It would be more reliable to proceed with the decision for trying it out (or not).

The subjective poetry spewers are a bit harder to decipher.... You may have to buy the crud he recommended at times and return it to figure out that your tastes don’t match. For example, there are a couple of reviewers out there, i know i most probably will like the opposite of what he liked. And, of course, there are those who’re paid to sing poetry on anything and everything...There ain’t anything that didn’t make his jaw drop ever.

I did see Erin’s review before he took it down. Subjectively, his tastes and mine don’t match..I would not buy any speaker he strongly recommends subjectively. But, he throws the measurements out there and makes it a bit easier for folks with differing tastes.

The zero fidelity YTer was a guy who would actually get close to the sound signature of things. He’d make an effort to subjectively describe its sound signature as accurately as possible (in case it suited a different guy’s tastes). There are other clueless "reviewers" who are unable to do such a thing. The latter is the type of guy, who will start describing an upstream component, when in reality he’s describing the speaker and so on....It’s mostly a goofy path, trying to navigate around the subjective poetry spewers.