@fair - As the first post in this thread, your reasoned response just sucked the tailwind out of the expected pile-on.
Thorsten Loesch vs Amir
Let the games begin!
An interesting conversation should be developing concerning the credibility of the numbers race by the measurement is everything crowd and the rest of us out here in the real world.
It's an interesting read so far, the following quote from Loesch in the thread is what I would call as plain as the nose on your face:
“I will not particularly criticise Amir, but I'm looking forward to the day when he finally fixed the groundloops/pin1 problem plaguing his AP2 measurements, something really basic.”
Amir will not address that statement in any credible way since this would be an admission that he is totally incapable of dealing with the intricacies of proper measurement details and would make all of his tests suspect. Even if Loesch's opinion that maybe Amir was dumb enough to have pin 1 connected to the shell of his xlr connectors when he performs a test there is obviously some reason for the constant apologizing for the 'I tried everything I could to get rid of that 60hz crap but couldn't do it.' Not to mention the interference and noise sources common in a residential neighborhood which would negate the chance of any single test results being repeatable.
Now, if you were to choose any amplifier (especially any Class D) test on the site with a favorable sinad value and recommended by Amir the majority of them would show that amp operating within its linear range with a thd+n level approaching -80db or more so often from tests other than sinad Loesch's opinion that performance on a level far, far less than the cult at ASR drool over ( sans any personal experience) is audibly unimpeachable.
The question of equating accuracy of reproduction to measurements will go on forever, no doubt. My question is, will it be answered over at ASR.
If Amir is dumb enough to go up against Loesch what will soon happen is that Amir will get frustrated and Loesch will be banned from the site.